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• Go Slow Strike at FagorMastercook (Mondragon capit ...
  Workers fight for wage increase. A work-to-rule strike in underway in Wroclaw's FagorMastercook factory. Despite exceptionally good output, increased exports and a healthy profit, most workers are still taking home a meager 350 euros a m ...
• Student struggle in the Netherlands
  Last Friday, January 21, the Netherlands saw student action on a massive scale. Fifteen thousand students and sympathisers, maybe more, came together for a protest rally on the Malieveld in The Hague, the city in which the Dutch government is located. The acti ...
• Rebels in the Maghreb… who they are?
  Rebels in the Maghreb… who they are? The State and its enlightened commentators were first selling us that it was about: • a little obstacle in the smooth running of business, to get round as soon as possible; • an expression of brutality peculiar to countries not well civilized; read more
• Anarchism and Syndicalism in the Colonial and Post ...
  Announcement of new book that develops a truly global history of the anarchist movement. Book Announcement: Anarchism and Syndicalism in the Colonial and Postcolonial World, 1870-1940 URL: http://labourhistory.net/news/i1012_6.php "Anar ...
• Insurrection in North Africa: the story so far
  Tunisia-protests-007.jpg In the latest development in the rapidly escalating situation in North Africa, the Tunisian President has been forced out of power, a new government formed and a state of emergen ...

Free Range International

• What Is the Problem Here?
  One of the Chim Chims’ has asked to put up a guest post on a topic near and dear to both our hearts for different reasons:  the continuing efforts of the New York Times to kill a program I doubt was that big of a deal to begin with.  Chim Chim is a member of [...]
• The Start of a Long Year
  A few weeks back home we’re a blessing and also a time to partake in my favorite thing to do which is doing nothing.  I’m an expert.  While I was away a few articles caught my attention and they serve as a useful point of departure to evaluate where we are at the start of [...]
• You Can’t Handle the Truth
  The efforts of the international community to bring aid to Afghanistan, help develop the infrastructure with the goal of allowing Afghanistan a chance at self sufficiency are failing dismally.  That should not be a surprise to anyone with more than a passing knowledge of the international aid racket ...
• Afghanistan’s Forgotten Province
  There are a couple of recent articles in the flood of coverage about Afghanistan which caught my eye last week.  The first is factually wrong but I understand what the author was saying and he is, in a sense correct.  The second is factually correct, I understand what that reporter was saying too an ...
• Rules of Engagement
  I have written in the past about night raids and aggressive ISAF convoy tactics causing unnecessary civilian casualties.  I have also written on the importance of not allowing enemy fighters who attack ISAF units to live and fight another day.  Counterinsurgency requires adaptation and my annoyance ...

The Story Behind the Story

• Oops!! Now Where Did I Put that Vial of VX???????
  Dugway Proving Grounds, west of Salt Lake City, is the home of some very nasty neighbors.  No run-of-the-mill “civilian” really knows what is stored there, and in what amounts.  The average citizen of Utah can only speculate and guess what is actually there, and so, when Hollywood churns out a dis ...
• The Story Behind the Story of Chinese Delegation&# ...
  Good Morning Friends: I submit this is exactly what Comrade Clinton promised Comrade Ju in her visit back in January 2009.  REMEMBER??  (She was literally hours into her Secretary of State position, when Hillary heads to Bejing!!!) I absolutely love what Donald Trump had to say to CNN’s Wolf Blitz ...
• Activity on the “New Madrid Fault”.
  Connecting the dots, folks, is what I try to do. Remember the “Swine Flu Pandemic” last winter?  Is that event somehow connected in any way with the Gulf oil spill and the dueterium laser attack on Deepwater Horizon?  Are the dead birds and animals in Arkansas and Kentucky connected as well?  I t ...
• Will the REAL “Jared Lee Loughner” Ple ...
• Is A. True Ott “Sorcha Faal”? Not Eve ...
  I have recently had a dozen or so people e-mail me concerning what I believe to have been an honest mistake — a patriot blog identified me, A. True Ott, with being “Sorcha Faal”.  The author even posted my picture.  He quickly apologized to me for his error, claiming that his “information” came fr ...

du la bab - Now is the Time

• Downsizing – downscaling? See these tiny hou ...
  Here’s a great company doing inspiring work www.tumbleweedhouses.com The company creator, Jay Shafer started off making a super small mobile home for himself measuring  just 89 square feet! Their video is a testament to less being more – they’re now selling ready made mobile cabins and the plans fo ...
• Air powered environmentally friendly car being pro ...
  Sounds a little strange right – an air powered car – why isn’t this big news I wonder… There’s a great company in France operated by a former Formula 1 engineer now producing cars running on compressed air. They’re not great to look at, super fast, or I’m guessing really comfortable, but they’re in ...
• Deforestation – environmental & human effect ...
  There are many types of forest in the world from Temperate Forest to Tropical forest. The one thing all forests have in common is that the trees in them act as the lungs to our planet converting CO2 to Oxygen.  In addition, forests provide a canopy or shading of the earth which helps maintain temper ...
• Could cancer be Fungus? If so, maybe here’s ...
  Recently I visited a dear friend who has been dealing with breast cancer for over ten years. After a long attempt to avoid surgery and medication, she was forced to have a double mastectomy. She has chosen to avoid the chemo treatments. This takes a lot of courage given that the standard thing to do ...
• Doctors Warn about GM Food Risks
  It’s barely been a week since I wrote about the dangers of genetically modified (GM) foods and now the American Academy of Environmental Medicine (AAEM) has released a strongly-worded warning about the health dangers associated with Frankenfoods. Calling for a moratorium on GM foods, the AAEM says t ...

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

• Olivia Chow, NDP MP (Jan 15, 2011)
  Jack Layton and Olivia Chow: Ottawa’s political power couple -- he’s a party leader, she’s one of his backbenchers. But only one of them makes the cut for this week’s program, and its not him! Olivia Chow is our guest and there’s lots to talk about.
• Wayne Gretzky
  He is the Great One by name, by deed and by reputation. And when Canadians were asked who should be the final torchbearer in Vancouver, he was their first choice. And this week, he's ours. Hockey legend, Wayne Gretzky.
• Mark Tremblay, Healthy Living and Obesity Expert ( ...
  How fit are we? Not very, if you buy into the steady stream of new studies that have been making the news. They paint a very bleak picture of the present, but an even worse future if current trends continue. This week, our guest tells us why.
• Bruce McCulloch, Comedian (Jan 16, 2010)
  He was one of the creative geniuses behind the 1980's TV hit The Kids in the Hall, and now he, and they, are back. But what about those intervening years? What did he learn and how has it changed him? This week, we find out.
• Gordon Lightfoot, Singer/Songwriter (Nov 14, 2009)
  He's a musical legend and an icon for songwriters around the world. There's only one voice that sounds like his. What more needs be said, other than he is our guest this week.

Scotts Contracting

• Senate Bill 50- Missouri Nuclear Agenda Just Say N ...
  Collection of Examples for Solar vs. Nuclear- Energy Production Debate and Proposed Bill Missourians, Don’t let the TV Ads on Senate Bill 50 Fool You. Read the Information for yourself-I’ve supplied all the web links where I found the Info. … Continue reading →
• You Can Save 500 Million Barrels of Oil with One C ...
  On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 12:02 PM, Environmental Defense Fund wrote: Having trouble using links or viewing images? View the web version. Dear Scotts Contracting, Please add your comments in support of new fuel economy and pollution standards … Continue reading →
• WindPower New LBNL report profiles innovation in & ...
  On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 12:46 PM, Anne Margolis wrote: Please see the announcement below on the availability of a new LBNL report, âCommunity Wind: Once Again Pushing the Envelope of Project Finance,â which may be useful to … Continue reading →
• Nominate a Star of Energy Efficiency — Early ...
  On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 4:37 PM, Alliance to Save Energy wrote: Make October 4th a Starry, Starry Night Honor those energy efficiency stars who shine brightest by submitting your Star of Energy Efficiency nomination today! Share appreciation … Continue reading →
• Appliance and Equipment Standards Are a Money Make ...
  NEWS RELEASE-Appliance and Equipment Standards Are a Money Maker and Job Creator Washington, D.C. (January 26, 2010): National appliance energy efficiency standards for common household and business products generated about 340,000 jobs in 2010, or 0.2% of the nation’s jobs, … Continue reading →

The View From Abroad

• Hypocrisy of U.S. Foreign Policy Produces Terroris ...
  U.S. support of tyrants betrays our principles and contributes to terrorism.
• Putting Things in Perspective
  The shooting in Tucson should make all Americans rethink our tragic War on Terror policies.
• Last Words Worth Acting Upon
  Richard Holbrooke knew we should end the war in Afghanistan.
• Logic, Not Emotions, Should Rule the Day
  Unemployment benefits meant to help the unemployed actually do more harm than good.
• Logic Not Emotions Should Rule the Day
  Unemployment benefits meant to help the unemployed actually do more harm than good.

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

• Discouraging Civilian Cooperation With Counterterr ...
  The cure may be worse than the disease.
• Palestine Papers Cause More Heartburn in Washingto ...
  Newly released documents are likely to destroy the Palestinian-Israeli peace process.
• Will Stuxnet Leave as Much Collateral Damage as An ...
  Even a computer virus like Stuxnet can cause nasty side effects.
• WikiLeaks XXXIV: Hu a "Cautious, Vacillating Leade ...
  Chinese premier Hu Jintao may not be as powerful as the world thinks.
• Secret SOTU
  Here's a glimpse into what the president is thinking while he's delivering the State of the Union address.

Law.com

• Latest Chevron Outtake: 'They're All Corrupt!'
  Donziger muses 'The judicial system is so utterly weak' in Corporate Counsel's latest release of outtakes from the documentary Crude.
• Minus Kagan, Supreme Court Lets 'Don't Ask' Policy ...
  In an order Friday, the Supreme Court denied a motion aimed at allowing a worldwide ban on enforcement of the "don't ask, don't tell" policy on gays in the military to take effect.
• MGA Loses Effort to Stall Trial in Fee Fight With ...
  A Los Angeles judge issued a tentative ruling Friday denying toymaker MGA Entertainment's efforts to stay a lawsuit that was filed by its former lawyers at O'Melveny & Myers.
• Proskauer and English Firm End Their Merger Discus ...
  Proskauer Rose and SJ Berwin said Friday they had decided against merging, putting to an end months of speculation about a possible trans-Atlantic tie-up between the two law firms. The firms in a joint statement said "we recognized that the timetable necessary to reach the agreements that would ensu ...
• IRS Throws In Towel on Closely Watched Internation ...

Iranian.com

• Lawyer In Shock over Dutch-Iranian Client’s Execut ...
  Just a few days ago, in an interview with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, Zahra Bahrami’s daughter denied all drug-related charges leveled against her mother. However, a few hours ago, Fars News Agency reported of the execution of the Dutch-Iranian prisoner. The International ...
• Iran hangs Iranian-Dutch woman for drug smuggling
  TEHERAN - IRAN on Saturday hanged an Iranian-Dutch woman, Zahra Bahrami, after she was found guilty of selling and possessing drugs, state media reported, quoting the Teheran prosecutor's office. 'A drug trafficker named Zahra Bahrami, daughter of Ali, was hanged early on Saturday morning after she ...
• حكم اعدام زهرا بهرامي اجرا شد
  اين گزارش حاكيست در بازرسي از منزل نامبرده، ‌كه پيشتر به اتهام ارتكاب جرائم امنيتي دستگير شده بود،‌ 450 گرم كوكائين و 420 گرم ترياك نيز كشف و در تحقيقات صورت گرفته مشخص شد وي 150 گرم كوكائين نيز به فروش رسانده است.
• Iran cleric: Mideast unrest replay of our 1979 Isl ...
  The ayatollah said that the era of "Western-backed dictators" in the Arab world was over and the people have entered the scene with the slogan of Allaha Akbar (God is Great), which Khatami said.
• Iran Sees Rise of Islamic Hard-Liners
  “I am more optimistic about Egypt,” Mr. Larijani said in comments published Friday on the Web site Khabar Online, which is closely linked to his brother, Ali Larijani, the speaker of Iran’s Parliament.

Most Revolutionary Act

• China and Japan Bail Out the Euro
  China, Japan and “Middle East” investors bailed out the Euro on January 25th. This hopefully will spare Portugal and Spain from IMF intervention and the harsh structural adjustment “austerity” cuts the IMF has recently imposed on Greece and Ireland. According to Klaus Regling, the head of the Europ ...
• South Africa: from Political to Economic Apartheid
  The corporate controlled media lies about everything else. Thus I had no logical reason to assume they told us the truth about the fall of South Africa’s apartheid regime in the 1990s. I should have known the fairy tale about local activism and international sanctions (driven mainly by campus acti ...
• CO2 Emissions Affect Company Stock Values
  According to a recent study by Professor Paul Griffin (University of California-Davis), Associate Professor David Lont (University of Otago, New Zealand) and Yuan Sun (University of California-Berkeley), the amount of greenhouse gasses a company produces has a significant effect on its stock price ...
• Electrosmog
  In the US, it appears that the cellphone and wireless industry is working hard to shut down research about EMR health risks. Scientists like Dr Henry Lai at the University of Washington risk having their careers destroyed by publishing studies about the health hazards of cellphones, cellphone towers ...
• The Cellphone Controversy
  I guess I shouldn’t be surprised the FDA, acting under pressure from the cellphone and wireless industry, has declared cellphones, Wi-Fi and cellphone towers safe. Nor that industry sponsored research of the health effects of EMR (electromagnetic radiation) comes up with very different results than ...

Doug's Darkworld

• Tunisia, Lebanon, and now Egypt?
  As I type Egyptians are taking to the streets to demand reform and the end of the Mubarak regime. And they are continuing to do so in ever greater numbers despite ever more desperate measures to end the unrest, including a curfew, shutting down the Internet, and dismissing the entire upper governmen ...
• The McMartin Preschool Trial: Grown Ups Behaving B ...
  My post on the Lawndale Thunderbird case has inspired me to write a series a series of blogs on how people deceive themselves and other oddities of the human mind. Or more accurately, the oddities of human perception and how setting and beliefs and preconceptions can colour, and sometimes wildly dis ...
• What is outside the Universe revisited: “The ...
  One of the side effects of trying to write thought provoking blog posts is that often they provoke a lot of thoughts, expressed in the form of comments. And unfortunately I often do not or cannot take the time to address them all properly. Hell, I could write a book on my responses to the [...]
• The 1977 Lawndale Illinois Thunderbird Attack
  In 1977 a giant bird attacked and tried to carry away a ten year old boy in central Illinois in front of multiple witnesses. Actually, two giant birds attacked, but only one tried to carry the kid away. The mother witnessed the attack and chased after the bird yelling, the bird released the boy and ...
• And the War Rages Ever On
  The war. The one war. The only war. The war that has been raging since at least 1492, when Spanish shock troops first waded ashore in the new world. In some senses a war that has been raging since the crusades in the seventh century. A war that has roots going back to the Greeks [...]

FourWinds10

• Naomi Klein: Addicted to risk
• Natural gas drilling responsible for causing flamm ...
  (NaturalNews) Natural gas drilling operations are springing up both in the U.S. and the U.K., but opponents say that the industry is destroying groundwater and very seriously polluting the environment.
• Illnesses linked to BP Oil Disaster: Widespread Si ...
• Pennsylvania Allows Gas Fracking Waste to be Dumpe ...
  It was revealed today by the AP that the state of Pennsylvania is allowing "wastewater so salty, and so polluted with metals like barium and strontium" to be flushed into local waterways. This wastewater is a result of natural gas extraction method called "fracking" which has been a sore spot with t ...
• The Oil Slick BP Tried To Hide Has Been Discovered
  In Thick Layers On the Sea Floor Over An Area of Several Thousand Square Miles � BP and the government famously declared that most of the oil had disappeared. But as I've noted, as much as 98% of the oil is still in the ocean. I have repeatedly pointed out that BP and the government applied massive ...

Crisis Maven

• Economic Musings VI: Modern Economies – Dyin ...
  There is a great debate in the history of economics whether there can be under-consumption in any real historic moment of the state of an economy and if so, whether it has detrimental effects and if so, what is to be done about it. And modern economists seem to have found a magic wand with [...]
• Blogs and Web Sites you may want to follow
  The following is a list of blogs and websites that CrisisMaven has followed and observed over the last few months and that readers may want to check out from time to time. Note: neither the sequence of how the blogs are listed here nor any comments by CrisisMaven are an endorsement nor criticism of ...
• Economic Musings VII: Marketing doesn’t adve ...
  Have you ever wondered if marketing and advertising are the same, if not, what’s the difference and which is the more important of the two? And why should you care? The most successful economic model is without doubt the market economy. It is the consequence of the wealth effects of the division of ...
• CrisisMaven’s Blog News 2010-03-07: Over 25,000 We ...
  Yesterday around 16:37 GMT we passed the 25,000 threshold … - next report will probably be posted when we’re past the 50,000 mark. Thanks to all avid readers: on 2010-03-18 at around 19:25 GMT we went past our first 20,000 views on our blog in about eight weeks since we began publishing! After that, ...
• Economic Musings VIII: Is there a limit to economi ...
  Something which puzzles many thinkers and frightens many young people concerned about waste or the pillaging of our natural resources is the question: can “an economy” (whatever that is – we’ll come to that in a minute) grow indefinitely? How can there be unlimited economic growth if we’ve never hea ...

Capital Flow Analysis

• Stock buybacks are bad for investors: Further evid ...
  In the working paper “The Buyback Monitor - July 2009: Corporate Stock Buyback Profits of 273 Firms from 2000 into 2009“, published on the Social Sciences Research Network, M.A. Gumport, CFA, provides further evidence that stock buybacks are not as good for investors as often touted. The following ...
• Why Obama’s healthcare scheme portends stagflatio ...
  The trillion-dollar Obama health care plan increases the odds that US economic recover will be delayed, and that unemployment and inflation will increase. The main thrust of the Obama plan is to increase taxes on individuals earning more than $250,000 a year, while forcing all but the tiniest bus ...
• How long would it take to work off the US trade de ...
  The rest of the world holds $16.8 trillion in US financial assets, according to Federal Reserve release Z.1, as of Q1 2009. [...]
• Why Bernanke’s flawed “exit strategy” policy porte ...
  In a lead op-ed editorial in the Wall Street Journal on July 21, 2009, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke revealed the Fed’s exit strategy with regards to the inflationary effects of the Obama “spending is stimulus” packages and other government measure to contain the current crisis. This articl ...
• Stocks surge on spurious earnings reports: Q2 2009
  No one knows for sure the real earnings of American corporations. In Q1 2009, according to the Federal Reserve flow of funds table F.102, after-tax profits of US non-financial, non-farm corporations, on an annual basis, were about $589.9 billion. However, about 50% of these after-tax earnings were ...

R-Squared Energy Blog

• Vinod Khosla and the Gasification/Fermentation Deb ...
  Join the forum discussion on this post Vinod Khosla Prognosticates Vinod Khosla is once more offering up his prognostications on the future of the energy business: What Matters in Biofuels? Given the likely continued dominance of the internal combustion engine, cellulosic and sugar-derived fuels ...
• Great Green Fleet Neither Great Nor Green?
  Join the forum discussion on this post In my recent interview with Tom Hicks, who is the Deputy Assistant Secretary to the Navy (Energy), he explained some of the Navy’s energy initiatives. One of those is to sail the “Great Green Fleet.” The goal is that in 2012 they will put a carrier strike grou ...
• EPA Expands E15 Decree
  Join the forum discussion on this post This week the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) approved the use of 15% ethanol fuel blends (E15) for 2011-2006 model year cars: EPA Grants E15 Fuel Waiver for Model Years 2001 – 2006 Cars and Light Trucks WASHINGTON â The U.S. Environmental Protection A ...
• Marginal Land Produces Marginal Biomass
  Join the forum discussion on this post The global potential for energy crops is a topic of great interest, and the media is often filled with reports of the potential for production on marginal land. Indeed, some of these reports go so far as to suggest that a substantial fraction or even all of cu ...
• Who, How, and Why: $140 Oil and $5 Gas
  Join the forum discussion on this post The following guest post is from OilPrice.com. ———————————— Who, How, and Why:  $140 Oil and $5 Gas According to a loosely-organized apocalyptic Christian movement, May 21, 2011 will be the “end of days.”  On or about that same date, the price of oil i ...

Discovery Educator Network

• Qwiki
  Tags: qwiki, search, Information, web2.0, web, Video, tools, searchengineby: Dean Mantz
• Free Technology for Teachers: 3 Clutter-free Ways ...
  Comments:3 options to use when wanting to show YouTube video's but remove all items around the video w/o embedding or downloading. - Dean MantzTags: technology, free, YouTube, adfreeby: Dean Mantz
• Many Eyes
  Comments:Create a visualization of data comparing 2 different views or even a word cloud.  - Dean MantzTags: visualization, data, tools, graphics, presentation, statistics, IBM, manyeyesby: Dean Mantz
• Extreme Planet Makeover
  Comments:Create your very own planet. - Dean MantzTags: planet, makeover, science, NASAby: Dean Mantz
• What do Students Think of Using iPads in Class? Pi ...
  Tags: ipad, students, education, ipads, survey, technology, edchatby: Dean Mantz

Rodale News

• Obama Believed to Be Behind GMO Alfalfa Push
  RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—On Thursday, the United States Department of Agriculture announced it would allow the unrestricted, nationwide planting of genetically engineered alfalfa, which is also known as GE, GMO, or Roundup Ready alfalfa. The decision to allow this genetically-manipulated crop into t ...
• Lead in Your Reusable Shopping Bag: Public Health ...
  RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Is your reusable shopping bag going to make you sick? It could. This past Monday, a Washington-based nonprofit released results of independent lab tests revealing that 25 percent of bags tested contained dangerous levels of lead. But the reasons they tested these bags in the ...
• 7 More Household Toxins You Should Banish from You ...
  RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Pollution is obvious when you see it belching out of factories and smokestacks, or even from the tailpipe of the car in front of you. But the sorry truth is, because of lax laws and many manufacturers' abandonment of the precautionary principle (making sure somethin ...
• USDA Approves Gene-Altered Alfalfa, Fails to Prote ...
  RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Thursday approved the genetically engineered alfalfa developed by chemical company Monsanto. read more
• 5 Fixes for Skiing's Hidden Costs
  RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Schussing down the side of a mountain on a set of skis is a sure cure for winter doldrums. But the sport can also have an unhealthy impact on the surrounding air and water. Researchers in Sweden and Norway have studied ski wax technicians who work for world-class ski teams, ...

big think

• Democracy Double Standards
  After a series of protests against Tunisia’s repressive regime—sparked by high unemployment and rising food prices—forced its longtime leader Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali to flee the country, President Obama declared in the State of the Union that “the United States stands with the people of Tunisia, and ...
• Where Should Sex Offenders Live?
  � Here in my country, Canada, is it impossible to find out how many sex offenders live in my community. I would like to know but, officially at least, it is none of my business. I do know that there are just over 400 sex offenders in my province of under one million people and about 16,300 ...Read ...
• Sola Road: Dutch Town to Cover Cycling Path with S ...
  Remember Scott Bursaw's ingenious solar roadways prototype? Now, the small town of Krommenie in Northern Holland is planning to pilot a similar concept on cycling paths. Developed by Dutch innovation consultancy TNO, Sola Road consists of concrete panels with embedded thick crystalline silicon ...
• GOP: Party of Forced Teen Birth
  The House Republican majority is trying to redefine "rape" in order to deny a large percentage of rape and incest victims access to Medicaid-funded abortions, Nick Baumann reports: "With this legislation, which was introduced last week by Rep. Chris Smith (R-N.J.),�Republicans propose that th ...
• Friday Eruption Update: Kirishima, Bromo, Galeras, ...
  This has been one busy week, both volcanically and personally, so I'm going to try not to write another three posts today. So, instead, let's try to summarize all the action from the week and get in a few words about some events that were missed in the Yellowstone and Kirishima noise. Kirishima .. ...

Information Liberation

• 'War on Cops'?
  Every week -- actually, every day -- innocent people across the country are harassed, abused, brutalized, tortured, and murdered by armed strangers in government-issued costumes. Most of the assailants are never held accountable. Often, they are plac...
• "Cops Kill People Execution Style & Judges Cover I ...
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• Obama Nominates Former Top RIAA Lawyer To Be Solic ...
  This has actually been rumored for quite some time, but now it's official. President Obama has nominated one of the RIAA's top litigators, Donald Verrilli to replace Elena Kagan as Solicitor General. Verilli, of course, was instrumental in leading ...
• Does Favoring Free Enterprise Mean Favoring "Busin ...
  "The first great error here is the mental habit that many have of thinking that big government and big business are somehow at odds." American political rhetoric seems to operate on a regular cycle, like a clock, which is why it seems lately like...
• Hazlitt and Keynes: Opposite Callings
  John Maynard Keynes was born in 1883 and died in 1946. Henry Hazlitt was born in 1894, eleven years after Keynes, and lived much longer, until 1993. Their lives and loyalties are a study in contrast, and mostly of choices born of in...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

• Ozboy’s Bar And Grill Is Closed For Repairs
  It’s only temporary. A couple of weeks. But the recent shenanigans round here have forced me to do some thinking about how LibertyGibbert can run better in the future. I’ve spoken to a couple of you about this today, to … Continue reading →
• The Dragon’s Dissent Part III: Naked Nationa ...
  The emergence of China as the world’s new superpower has raised many questions in the international community and across the blogosphere regarding the longer-range agenda of the Middle Kingdom. In a recent discussion on this forum, the question of Chinese … Continue reading →
• U.S. Elections: Will Liberty Win?
  Well today’s the day. As just about every other blog in the sphere is covering the elections today, I thought I’d throw the forum open, and we can discuss the results as they come in, in real time. If as … Continue reading →
• Libertarianism And Drug Liberalization
  G’day everyone, Just arrived back home safe and sound. Sorry there hasn’t been a new post in several days, but just at the moment my family needs me more than the Bar and Grill does. Dr. Dave has graciously stepped … Continue reading →
• Stealing Democracy?
  G’day everyone, Ozboy here. The United States mid-term elections are just one week away, and the mounting resentment many Americans feel about the way their country is being governed appears certain to be made clear at the polls. One of … Continue reading →

FAS - Secrecy News

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Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

• A tetralogy of science news
  Four more picks from the latest science news by David Bradley Tales of the unexpected: a night with Tim Radford – My mentor at The Guardian, Tim Radford, told tales of science writing at a special event last week and warned the audience that the public can be very squeamish about new scientific prac ...
• Even more science news
  Science news snippets from the net meanderings of David Bradley Fighting malaria without DDT = FAIL – Review suggests DDT essential in fight against malaria, despite claims for green approaches. A new research paper exposes allegedly false claims and misrepresentations of science by United Nations e ...
• Free chemistry dictionary
  UPDATE: 2011-01-20 Version 3.0 of the chemistry dictionary is now available. Now, with crowd-sourced, user-submitted words and an OpenOffice.org dictionary extension. “It took me the better part of a month,” Azman told us, “but I’ve made my own and I want it to be as open-source as possible. Chemspy ...
• Social networking with research data
  I’d previously used the phrase “Napster for Research Papers” when thinking about Mendeley. Mendeley lets you upload your own research papers to your personal library under publishers’ fair use agreements and to share them with their peers as you might share a traditional paper reprint. So, maybe Nap ...
• Even more science news
  Science news snippets from the net meanderings of David Bradley Sir David King on climate change – King said, “We hear enough from the climate change skeptics that I have to repeat some fundamentals that you’ve probably heard before.” Fifty-five million years ago, atmospheric CO2 concentrations stoo ...

RFF Library

• Benefits of Beyond BAU: Human, Social, and Environ ...
  Civil Society Institute, Synapse Energy Economics, Inc. http://www.civilsocietyinstitute.org/012511_Beyond_BAU_report.pdf [From Executive Summary] The existing coal fleet in the United States exacts an expensive toll on the US. The fleet itself is fairly inexpensive to operate, and for years has bee ...
• Mineral Commodity Summaries
  US Geological Survey http://minerals.usgs.gov/minerals/pubs/mcs/ [From summary website] Published on an annual basis, this report is the earliest Government publication to furnish estimates covering nonfuel mineral industry data. Data sheets contain information on the domestic industry structure, Go ...
• Sustainable Development of the World’s Large Marin ...
  UN Development Programme http://tinyurl.com/5s5ruf2 [From UN Pulse posting] This report features papers that cover a range of key issues, from the impacts of climate change on Large Marine Ecosystems (LMEs), to new policy and institutional tools for LME governance, to new policy and institutional to ...
• 2010 Urban Mobility Report
  Texas Transportation Institute / by David Schrank, Tim Lomax, and Shawn Turner http://tti.tamu.edu/documents/mobility_report_2010.pdf [Summary] Congestion is still a problem in America’s 439 urban areas. The economic recession and slow recovery of the last three years, however, have slowed the seemi ...
• Biofuels and the Environment: First Triennial Repo ...
  US EPA http://oaspub.epa.gov/eims/eimscomm.getfile?p_download_id=500457 [From Report Background] The Energy Independence and Security Act (EISA Section 204) directs EPA to conduct a study of the environmental impact associated with current and future biofuel production and use. The mandate asks for ...

Scientific American - News

• Middle Eastern Stone Age Tools Mark Earlier Date f ...
  Just beyond a shallow, narrow sea lay an open topography of grassy savanna, populated by plentiful game and few predators. This watery barrier--likely not more than five kilometers wide--would have been but a small obstacle for a group of modern humans accustomed to navigating African lakes with boa ...
• Something to Chew on: Researchers Look Inside Cow ...
  You may have heard the proclamation before: The next generation of biofuels will be derived from cellulosic plant material. And, in theory, this makes sense. Whereas ethanol can be produced via the fermentation of simple sugars in food crops such as corn or sugarcane, it would be more economical t ...
• Olden Gaze: Galaxy in Hubble Image May Be the Most ...
  It was a long time ago, and it was a galaxy far, far away, but it's doubtful that any Ewoks, Hutts or Wookies would have had time to evolve there. In fact, the galaxy in question is so far away, and the distance its light must travel to reach Earth so vast, that astronomers see the galaxy as it appe ...
• Spruce Up: Researchers Pinpoint Genes That Give Pi ...
  In western North America the mountain pine beetle --the most destructive of the many species collectively known as bark beetles--is on a pine tree–killing spree. Since the 1990s swarms of the tiny killer, spurred in part by a streak of relatively mild winters that don't kill the insect, along with ...
• Apologies Fail to Live Up to Our Expectations
  Bank chiefs, oil company executives and louche politicians seem as allergic to admitting guilt as the public is eager to extract contritions from them. If sometimes we seem to scrutinize people more for their failure to say, "I'm sorry," than for the transgressions themselves, it is partly due to th ...

RAWA News

• No jobs, only war, for Afghans
  IWPR: Shahbaz stands at the Kotai Sangi junction in Kabul with a set of builder’s tools, just as he does every day, hoping someone will take him on. “I have nine family members and I need to earn some money to feed my children,” he told the Institute for War and Peace Reporting (IWPR). “But there is ...
• Afghan Women Bemoan Rights Pledges
  IWPR: They sit patiently in the lobby of the directorate of women’s rights at the women’s ministry, their sad, bruised faces testimony to the years of ill-treatment and beatings they have been forced to endure. One of the women, Marina, 20, told this IWPR reporter that her family married her off whe ...
• 7.3 million Afghans are “food insecure&#8221 ...
  UPI: International partners teamed up with Afghan leaders to discuss the seriousness of food security issues in the country, the World Food Program said. Louis Imbleau, the WFP representative in Afghanistan, met with Afghan leaders in Kabul to discuss bilateral measures needed to address food shorta ...
• Women and children killed in Afghanistan blast
  BBC News: A roadside bomb has killed 13 civilians in eastern Afghanistan, government officials said. The interior ministry said in a statement that the vehicle, a motorised rickshaw, was hit in the morning. The dead include women and children. The attack took place in Khoshamand district in Paktika ...
• Secret report reveals new funding channels for Tal ...
  CNN: In August last year, Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak was not happy with Saudi Arabia. He complained that the Saudis appeared to be funding an opposition candidate, Anwar Ibrahim, in upcoming elections. What's more, the Malaysian authorities suspected two senior Saudi princes of involve ...

frogblog

• It’s Green Campaign Conference weekend
  Blogging might be a bit slow here this weekend, as the Green Party’s Campaign Conference is underway. This is the start of the democratic process under which aspiring and current Green MPs get to present their credentials to the Party membership. After the Conference there will be ...
• Free film for jailed Iranian filmmaker
  If you’re in Wellington this Sunday night, there’s a free film showing at the Paramount in support of Jafar Panahi. The Iranian filmmaker was arrested in March 2010 for “plans” to make a film about the nationwide protests that followed the disputed 2009 presidential election in Ira ...
• Cool animated video of Auckland transport
  There’s a cool video doing the rounds on the blogosphere right now which shows the Auckland public transport network working over a 24 hour period. An animated map of Auckland’s public transport network from Chris McDowall on Vimeo. Watching it really highlights to me how radial th ...
• 0800NEWCOPS: Fail in every possible way
  I can scarcely believe this Police recruitment poster.  In fact, I initially thought it was a photoshopped spoof when I saw it over at LudditeJourno a couple of days ago.  But there’s a link to a NZ Herald story from a couple of weeks back that authenticates it. Cue in the “Clint R ...
• Wikileaks gives impetus to Waihopai protest
  It was good to be part of the protest outside the Waihopai spybase on Saturday. It is a bit out of the way, so the numbers involved are never that large, but they do represent the concern of many New Zealanders that the presence of the base compromises the independence of New Zealan ...

Patronus Analytical

• Greek aid worker kidnapped in Pakistan
• Aid worker killed in Iraq
• Update on kidnapped Greek aid worker
• NGO worker beaten to death in Dhaka
• Canadian aid worker murdered in Honduras

J Kozy

• Can America Be Changed?
  If the American people ever hope to take back their country, they need to understand America's political economy so the parts of it that are morally offensive and economically ineffective can be repudiated. Only then will Americans be able to make the changes that are needed to make Lincoln's dr ...
• The Media in America: Selling Views, Calling it Ne ...
  America's journalists are not "newshounds" They are nothing more than salesclerks, hocking the products their employers want to sell. The pretty faces that now function as most television news anchors are no different than the pretty models used to sell other products. The American "free" press ...
• America's Next Failure: the Police State
  Every police force in the nation has cold (unsolved) cases. The War on Drugs has been ineffective for more than forty years. No one knows where a vast number of illegal immigrants even are. The CIA has been unable to locate Osama bin Laden after more than ten years of searching. Your local police ca ...
• Western Civilization and Classical Economics: The ...
  When a civilization abandons its morality, no rationalization can be devised to justify its continued existence. It is likely that many reasons can be given for this abandonment in the Western world, although I am convinced that one predominatesthe expansion of law. Law once governed various kin ...
• The Mythical United States of America: Rushing int ...
  The mythical United States of America so highly lauded exists nowhere. It is a Shangri-la. The Preamble of the Constitution makes perfectly clear what kind of nation the United States was meant to be. What exists today fulfills none of those goals. Some have argued that the nation was a fraud fr ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

• Friday Cat Blogging - 28 January 2011
  On left, Inkblot is giving himself a good chin smooch after spending a few minutes in rapt concentration at a nearby hummingbird. He had obviously been hoping to sprout wings and fly over for a lunchtime snack, but when that didn't happen he decided to pretend nothing had happened and curl back up i ...
• Downgrading America
  Karl Smith on the possibility that ratings agencies will downgrade U.S. debt from its current AAA rating: I am [] willing to take 50 to 1 odds that President Obama doesn’t understand what a downgrading of US Treasuries would mean. He could probably trot out some line about investor confidence but w ...
• Is Corporate Tax Reform Still Possible?
  The New York Times has a pretty good primer on corporate tax reform today, and it includes the chart on the right showing the different rates that various industries pay thanks to the tax breaks, subsidies, and loopholes that they've lobbied for over the year. Jon Chait comments: Guess what? The in ...
• The GOP and the Tea Party
  Kathleen Hennessey of the LA Times reports that with the election safely out of the way, Republican senators are none too eager to associate themselves with the tea party movement: The first meeting of the Senate Tea Party Caucus on Thursday attracted just four senators — out of 47 GOP members — wi ...
• Egypt
  This is probably obvious to everyone already, but just for the record: I don't have anything personally to add about events in Egypt, and I assume that you can follow the basic news from mainstream sources just fine without links from me. So I won't be posting much about this, even though it's plain ...

Insanity Report

• Ted Haggard Making a Fool of Himself…Again
  I swear Ted Haggard is the gift that keeps giving.  Every time you think you’ve heard it all and this guy has finally fallen off the radar, he pops up in an interview somewhere and you’re left thinking “Man, he should have stayed home.”  Last time we heard from Ted, he was part of a [...]
• Someone Tell Don Imus to Shutup
  I purposely avoided commenting on the news last Friday that Keith Olbermann and MSNBC split ways.  I’ve made my feeling known about Olbermann rather frequently.  However, let me say that I do appreciate Keith for what he did and his team spent on MSNBC.  During the Bush years Olbermann seem to be th ...
• FacePalm of the Week: Assault with a Deadly Dildo
  A woman who made news for attacking a police officer with a “clear, rigid feminine pleasure device” is claiming that she was acting in self-defense. Carolee Bildsten was found by a police officer lying in the grass down the street from a Joe’s Crab Shack in Gurnee, Illinois last November. She told t ...
• IC 224: It’s Not a Date When…
  Topics for the show: We had some technical difficulties with Dylan’s mic at the beginning of the show Keith Olbermann leaves MSNBC Steve Harvey’s ex-wife got a “Confindential” package from his mistress Pointless relationship advice It’s not a date when… how do you know he really loves you? Share wit ...
• Oh Look…It’s Rick Santorum
  Hold on, I haven’t said this in a while so I might be a little rusty: Rick Santorum…..GO FUCK YOURSELF Seriously, did this guy just essentially compare black people not being considered people under the Constitution as slaves to a fetus that could be placed in a petri dish and frozen like a mini-piz ...

Simple Climate

• 2,000 year water temperature high underlines Arcti ...
  Average temperatures of water flowing into the Arctic since 1890 are 2ºC higher than they have been on average in the previous two millennia, Robert Spielhagen and colleagues show.
• Rain-soaked plants trudge downhill
  Surveys separated by 70 years show how climate change in Northern California has increased rainfall, causing plants to move to generally warmer, drier, lower altitude habitats.
• Ice melt poses dual sea rise and water access thre ...
  One-fifth of the ice held in the world's ice caps and glaciers will melt by 2100, affecting water availability, adding around 12 cm to sea levels and threatening some coastal regions, predicts University of British Columbia's Valentina Radić.
• Greenhouse gases break temperature-rainfall link
  While warmer air can take up more water than colder air, the extra heat trapped in the lower atmosphere by gases like CO2 decreases how much of this is released as precipitation, explains Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research's Katja Frieler.
• Dust research polishes climate models
  The smallest, cooling, particles are a lower proportion of all atmospheric dust than climate models assume, says the US National Center for Atmospheric Research's Jasper Kok, likely meaning there are more particles than previously thought overall and helping improve accuracy of climate predictions i ...

e!Science News

• Modern humans reached Arabia earlier than thought, ...
  The timing and dispersal of modern humans out of Africa has been the source of long-standing debate, though most evidence has pointed to an exodus along the Mediterranean Sea or along the Arabian coast approximately 60,000 years ago. read more
• Surf's up: New research provides precise way to mo ...
  Engineers have created a new type of "stereo vision" to use in studying ocean waves as they pound against the shore, providing a better way to understand and monitor this violent, ever-changing environment. read more
• 'Air laser' may sniff bombs, pollutants from a dis ...
  Princeton University engineers have developed a new laser sensing technology that may allow soldiers to detect hidden bombs from a distance and scientists to better measure airborne environmental pollutants and greenhouse gasses. read more
• A dash of disorder yields a very efficient photoca ...
  A little disorder goes a long way, especially when it comes to harnessing the sun's energy. Scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) jumbled the atomic structure of the surface layer of titanium dioxide nanocrystals, creating a catalyst tha ...
• New research traces evolutionary path of multidrug ...
  Despite penicillin and the dozens of antibiotics that followed it, streptococcus bacteria have remained a major threat to health throughout the world. The reason: the superb evolutionary skills of this pathogen to rapidly alter its genetic makeup. In a landmark paper published this week in Science, ...

unEarthed

• Chevron Gives Up On Coal to Liquid Fuel
  Three coal mines for sale Finally admitting the unprofitably of turning coal into motor fuel, Chevron announced on Friday that it is getting out of the business. ...
• Energy Efficiency Champ Scott Harris Leaving DOE
  Replacement must have Harris' commitment to enforcing efficiency standards Scott Blake Harris We at Earthjustice are dismayed that a champion of energy efficien ...
• Friday Finds: The Longest Swim
  Twelve bad men, Gasland spotlight, green spies Polar bears use ice floes, which are rapidly melting due to climate change, to search for food. Photo courtesy of Florian Schulz. ...
• And the Oscar Goes To…
  Fracking travels from the little screen to the big screen and back again Josh Fox's critically acclaimed documentary GASLAND was nominated this week for an Academy Award for Best Documentary. ...
• Reframing the Climate Change Debate
  Obamaâs emphasis on clean energy future plays to Middle America Does it matter if climate change is addressed through the lens of a clean energy future? (Photo by Jeremiah Handeland) ...

Brave New Climate

• Two countries, two paths, one crucial lesson learn ...
  In the 1970s, two countries took two different paths in energy policy. Denmark pursued wind power, but failed to replace its fossil fuel power plants. It has among the highest carbon emissions per capita in Europe. France pursued nuclear power, and now has the lowest carbon emissions of any OECD cou ...
• New BNC podcast series and predict millionth page ...
  One of the new initiatives I’ll be trying in 2011 is an audio podcast series (I use the term ‘series’ loosely, as there’ll be no fixed schedule). This is now fairly straightforward to do, via my iPhone 4 and the Audioboo app. This type of media/blogging is quick and flexible to do on the fly. [...]
• The cost of ending global warming – a calcul ...
  Guest Post by Chris Uhlik. Dr Uhlik did a BS, MS, and PhD in Electrical Engineering at Stanford 1979–1990. He worked at Toyota in Japan, built robot controllers, cellular telephone systems, internet routers, and now does engineering management at Google. Among his 8 years of projects as an engineeri ...
• Livestock and Climate Change … Status update
  Guest Post by Geoff Russell. Geoff is a mathematician and computer programmer and is a member of Animal Liberation SA. His recently published book is CSIRO Perfidy. The United Nations report Livestock’s Long Shadow (LLS) came out in 2006 with an estimate that 18 percent of anthropogenic greenhou ...
• QLD floods highlight the cost of climate extremes
  After a long, hot period of drought in eastern Australia, spanning much of the 1990s and 2000s and referred to as the worst in 1000 years (see also discussion on BNC on the drought here and the strange winter of 2009 here), the period 2010-2011 has seen record rainfall and rural flooding events in A ...

Indigenist Opinion

• John John: The View From Occupied Canada #229
  The Day - Groton Guard detachment is heading to Egypt | News from southeastern Connecticut Groton - Connecticut National Guard Detachment 2, Company I, 185th Aviation Regiment of Groton has mobilized and will deploy to the Sinai Peninsula, Egypt, to support the Multinational Force and Observers. Th ...
• The Rescuers
  I was recently roaming through the airport duty free bookshop in one of the Gulf States which used to have strict censorship on reading material. Up until a year ago, I was unable to find some books or magazines on the shelves of any of the bookstores, and I was told by the managers that the go ...
• allAfrica.com: Uganda: Can We Talk Honestly About ...
  allAfrica.com: Uganda: Can We Talk Honestly About Homosexuality?: "David Kato, a gay rights activist who campaigned against the Anti-Homosexuality Bill, and who sued a local tabloid last year after it named him as being homosexual, was killed in his home this week. Police say they are investigating ...
• وكالة أنباء العربي الغاضب: Ramallah PA gang takes ...
  The Angry Arab News Service/وكالة أنباء العربي الغاضب: Ramallah PA gang takes it out on Aljazeera Abu Mazen-Fayyad gangs are not pleased with Aljazeera. (thanks Sousan) Palestinian protesters vandalize Al-Jazeera offices in Ramallah - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News: "About 250 Abbas loya ...
• Tamar Manasseh: America's Violent Past and the que ...
  America's Violent Past and the question of Race America's race problem [www.finalcall.com] Whether we like it or not, any time this country is confronted with the question of race, it responds violently. In 1865 with passage of the 13th amendment, slavery was abolished. Then came the 14th amendmen ...

Republicans are a Disease

• Tea Party Founder Judson Phillips Lies on MSNBC
  On “The Last Word” Judson Phillips said Social Security will be broke in 2037. Reality says that even if the trust fund currently 2.6 trillion dollars is exhausted in 2037 Social Security will still be able to pay out 80% of the benefits. Tell me Judson. If you want “respect” for your organization o ...
• Why I Can’t Watch CNN
  Even though I enjoy watching some shows on CNN, I find it ever more difficult to not change the channel. When I turn on CNN I get the opportunity to see right wing conservative guests and commentators spew outright lie after outright lie. It makes me sick to my stomach to watch right wing mouth piec ...
• Paul Ryan’s America
  In Paul Ryan’s America, your grandmother would already be dead. If she was lucky enough to survive, she would be pushing a shopping cart bagging for handouts, because someone on Wall Street churned her retirement into nothing, and her Social Security payouts would be $20 per month after “managers” p ...
• Impeach Clarence Thomas Now
  While Clarence Thomas ruled repeatedly for the benefit of the oligarchs, the Heritage Foundation paid his wife hundreds of thousands of dollars. Mr. Thomas neglected to claim this income on his financial disclosure statements, which is a crime if I remember correctly. So here we have billionaires la ...
• Who Will Be Glenn Beck’s Next Target?
  So which “liberal” will be targeted for assassination on next on the Glenn Beck show? Which champion of the poor will be the next target of his rants? Which community organizer will Beck blame for all that is wrong in America?  What leader of an organization that is empowering minorities, and attem ...

Appalachia Rising

• Day of Action and Conference Vision Statements
  Appalachia Rising: Day of Action September 25 – 27, 2010, Washington DC Appalachia Rising is a mass mobilization in Washington DC on September 27, 2010 calling for the abolition of mountaintop removal and surface mining. It is a culmination of the national movement against surface mining and a found ...
• Press Conference to be Held on June 15
  Thousands to March in DC Calling for the Abolition of Mountaintop Removal Press Conference June 15 in Charleston, WV Announces Mass Mobilization Appalachia Rising WHEN: June 15, 10:00 AM WHERE: WV State Capitol Back Steps Near Fountain, Charleston, WV CONTACTS: West Virginia Bo Webb – 304-237-2688 o ...
• Press Inquiries
  All media inquiries should be sent to Bo Webb webb.bo@gmail.com Set up interviews via email. Previous Press Releases and Media Public Launch Press Conference Report Back, with video Press Conference Held on June 15 Announces Appalachia Rising Video June 15 Appalachia Public Launch Press Conference H ...
• New Flier for Appalachia Rising
• Appalachia Rising Uniting Celebrities, Appalachian ...
  Appalachia Rising Uniting Celebrities, Appalachians, and Scientists for the Abolition of Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining Ashley Judd, Woody Harrelson, Gloria Reuben, Kyra Sedgewick, Kevin Bacon, Ed Begley Jr., Kathy Mattea, Robert F. Kennedy Jr, James Hansen, and Darryl Hannah rallying behind coalfi ...

Amped Status

• Horrific Arizona Massacre Is A Sign of Tragedies t ...
  Let This Tragedy Be A Wake Up Call. Given Socio-Political Conditions, Many More Violent Acts On the Way.
• AmpedStatus.com Hit By Mass DoS Attacks
  As you may have noticed, for most of the day yesterday AmpedStatus.com was down. Shortly after posting our new report we were hit with a heavy barrage of DoS attacks...
• Obama Renews Commitment to Complete Destruction of ...
  Obama has just doubled down on the side of the financial terrorists. Meet Bill Daley and Gene Sperling - another JP Morgan-Goldman Sachs attack. Let's dig deep into their past and reveal everything that you need to know.
• I Will Not Participate In the Journalism of Appeas ...
  Don’t you get it? This is a war! This is a mass slaughter carried out by economic policy. This is the elimination of the existence of a middle class. These are financial terrorists committing crimes against humanity. Our country is under attack!
• The Wall Street Pentagon Papers: Biggest Scam In W ...
  The Global Banking Cartel has now been so blatantly exposed, you cannot possibly get away with pretending that we live in a nation of law based on the Constitution. The jig is up.

+972

• Nobel Peace Prize laureate could be Egypt’s ...
  By Roee Ruttenberg Perhaps more worrying than Egypt’s uprising itself is the lack of any definitive leader behind it.  Ayman Nour, the prominent Egyptian opposition politician and head of the El Ghad party, was reportedly injured in Friday’s protests.  But that neither slowed nor fueled the demonstr ...
• Palestinian teen brain dead after being shot by se ...
  Around 100 settlers from Bat Ayn settlement descended upon the Palestinian villages of Saffa and nearby Beit Ummar in the southern West Bank, shooting 17-year-old Yousef Fakhri Ikhlayl in his head, leaving him critically injured Friday Morning. Doctors have announced that Yousef is currently brain-d ...
• Israelis view the street protests in Egypt with bo ...
  In Israel, media coverage of the Egyptian uprising has been superficial at best. Most Israelis know little about the Arab world and are indifferent to the issues that brought Egyptians to the streets; instead, they focus on their fear that the Muslim Brotherhood, which is perceived as hostile to Isr ...
• Unrest in Tunisia and Egypt begins to trickle into ...
  The winds of change blowing across the Mideast appeared to have reached the Jewish State yesterday, as hundreds of politicians and public servants took to the streets of Jerusalem to demand the removal of State Comptroller Micha Lindenstrauss from office. The group of protesters, led by General Yoav ...
• Sham trials won’t defend IDF officers from i ...
  By Noam Wiener Not even a slap on the wrist. Lieutenant Colonel Omri Barborg, who ordered one of his soldiers to shoot rubber coated bullet at a bound and blindfolded Palestinian from point blank range, was not even demoted by the military court yesterday. Barborg (seen in this video holding the pri ...

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

• New Lynton to Belair urban trail is open for busi ...
  Cyclists and pedestrians are already taking advantage of the recently completed Lynton to Belair Urban Trail.
• Emergency heritage protection for Jordan River le ...
  The Federal Environment Minister, Tony Burke, has used emergency powers under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act to place the Jordan River Levee site, near Brighton in Tasmania, on the national heritage list.
• Sydney Theatre Company shows the world how to 'Sw ...
  The Sydney Theatre Company will officially open another innovative 'Green Precinct', jointly funded under the Gillard Government's Green Precincts Fund.
• Investing in Australia's desalination industry ...
  The National Centre of Excellence in Desalination has awarded nearly $3 million in funding to research projects investigating ways to advance desalination technology.
• Have your say on a sustainable population strateg ...
  The Sustainable Population Strategy Issues Paper has been released, calling for all Australians to have their say about Australia's changing population.

Matt Weidner Blog

• The Latest Example of Failure in Florida Fraudclos ...
  The Florida Supreme Court attempted to stand up for the rights of homeowners and tried to foster an environment of practical solution to the foreclosure problem when it ordered mandatory mediation in residential foreclosures, but the latest concrete example of the continued failures of the lenders a ...
• Fraudclosure- The Florida Legislature Wants to Hea ...
  One of the biggest problems in this Fraudclosure battle is the fact that those who are most directly impacted by the problems fail to speak out and fail to take any action.  This simply cannot continue if we are to expect any change in this practice environment.  With that in mind, I WANT TO IMPLORE ...
• The US Constitution, Foreclosures and Lee County&# ...
  The Constitution of the United States of America protects every American. Black, white, rich, poor, in foreclosure or not.  We all need to recognize that long established rules and procedures are the backbone of the protections we  are all given in the United States Constitution.  If we stand aside ...
• Florida’s Chief Justice Comments on the &#82 ...
  Before I get to the substance of this post, I want to share a very important lesson I’ve learned recently.  Our basic liberties, in fact the most vital liberty of all, Freedom of Speech is under a vicious assault in this country.  Your freedom to speak is no longer free, particularly when you are ...
• Another Order out of Lee County….
  It just defies any commentary….. Lee+county+starnes+rule+1.440+does+not+apply+in+lee+county+12+2010 Tweet this! Share and Enjoy: Scridb filter

abelard - news

• two years after a forest's destruction | the Franc ...
  After two years, the assessment of the havoc wreaked by a freak hurricane-strength cyclone can be more complete, showing clearly the extensive ruination of Europe's largest industrial forest.
• 'progress' - shanghai | economics news at abelard. ...
  Visual example of the bludgeoning Chinese economy, but must we vaunt this growth?
• a new food report - highly publicised | ecology ne ...
  UK government report on feeding the ever-growing world population.
• some of the socialist monster legacy | politics uk ...
  The sort of madness that the current coalition government is starting to dismantle. They must also write new, more sane, memes.
• get your kicks on route 66: the original | fun new ...
  We all know the high-speed rock-n-roll version, don't we? Well, here's the guy who wrote it.

The Parallel Parliament

• Women Of The Sun
  John Garang, deceased visionary and key political figure in south Sudan’s struggle for independence, once called them “the marginalized of the marginalized.” No more. Something is subtly changing in what will soon be the world’s newest nation and it’s not just statehood. It’s the millions of women w ...
• Who’s Watching Whom?
  We no sooner had descended from the Sudanese sky to a dirt airstrip than we were asked to immediately visit the commissioner in charge of the referendum process. It was something of a surprise because we’ve been going to that same village for over a decade delivering development programs and the req ...
• Winds of Change – Back to Ottawa
  This is the final video from our remarkable trip to Sudan for the historic referendum. Of all our dozens of trips, leaving on this occasion was perhaps the most difficult. The Sudanese we have known for over a decade – administrators, soldiers, exiles, slaves, religious and educational leaders, NGO ...
• Winds of Change – Departure
  Filed under: Personal, The New Internationalism
• Winds of Change – Projects
  It’s been difficult only getting to Sudan for one week a year because of my parliamentary schedule – visits used to be far more frequent. Yet we have been fortunate in having a good number of Canadians travelling with us each year. Some have been coming for the last five years. That leaves my wife, ...

Vaccine Awakening

• New Vaccine Science Can Help Bridge the Divide
  by Barbara Loe Fisher Fear of the unknown is what terrifies us the most, fear of being unable to have control over what the future holds. At the root of that fear is knowing that the choices we make today could have a profound impact on what happens tomorrow. 1 Fear is a strong emotion tha ...
• Counting Blessings, Remembering the Children
  by Barbara Loe Fisher Every Christmas and New Year, when I give thanks for the people who have blessed my life, I remember the mothers and fathers of severely vaccine injured children, who have taught me the most about love and courage. I know that my son, Chris, who developed brain inflammation ...
• Thousands Of Americans Register for NVIC's New Adv ...
  by Barbara Loe Fisher Thousands of Americans living in all 50 states took action and registered for the new NVIC Advocacy Portal at www.NVICadvocacy.org during Vaccine Awareness Week (Nov. 1-6, 2010) co-sponsored by the National Vaccine Information C ...
• Vaccine Science: A Search for Truth
  by Barbara Loe Fisher February 2009 turned out to be a month when vaccine science was put on trial in the U.S. Court of Claims in Washington, D.C., in mainstream media and on the internet, in the British Medical Journal and in vaccine safety research initiatives by the U.S. Department of Health and ...
• Talking Vaccine Science with Government: Why Do It ...
  by Barbara Loe Fisher After the historic election in November that saw Barack Obama elected President, I wondered what he and his Administration would do about addressing the question that is on the minds of many parents: Why are so many vaccinated children today chronically ill, suffering with lea ...

2020 Science

• Davos 2011 – physics superstar meets music superst ...
  I don’t usually write about personal interactions here, but this is one I couldn’t resist – physics superstar Lawrence Krauss talking cosmology with music superstar Peter Gabriel. I was with Lawrence at a World Economic Forum dinner when he bumped into Peter – as one does!  He immediately launched ...
• Davos 2011: Desperately seeking Google
  It’s that time of year again – 2000+ of the worlds top movers and shakers are beginning to descend on the Swiss ski town of Davos for this year’s Annual World Economic Forum meeting.  Political heavyweights like Clinton, Annan, Sarkozy and Cameron will be intermingling with the likes of Gates, Bono ...
• Obama’s 21st century regulatory system will demand ...
  Cross posted from the Risk Science Center Blog: There’s a lot to like in President Obama’s perspective on 21st century regulation. Writing in today’s Wall Street Journal, Obama outlines his thinking behind his new executive order to review and revise a convoluted and potentially disruptive federal r ...
• NOVA Making Stuff, nanomaterials and a web-lactati ...
  Next week sees the debut of the PBS science program NOVA’s new series Making Stuff – a four part special “exploring the materials that will shape our future”, hosted by NY Times technology columnist David Pogue. You may recall that I expressed some reservations over the program’s approach to bioengi ...
• Nanoparticle Toxicity dropped from the World Econo ...
  As I report on the Risk Science Blog, the latest iteration of the World Economic Forum Global Risks Report has dropped “Nanoparticle Toxicity” as an emerging and significant risk.  Instead, the far more generic “Threats from New Technologies” takes its place. This is a welcome move – but I do have ...

Reader Supported News

• Egyptian Tanks Roll as Protesters Defy Curfew
  Intro: "Demonstrations against the government of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak gather strength as thousands take to the streets and troops move into Cairo. A curfew is in force but is largely ignored as protesters set fires and try to enter government buildings. Opposition leader Mohamed ElBarade ...
• Billionaires Hold Summit on How to Influence Elect ...
  On Sunday, amid great secrecy, 200 or so of America's wealthiest and most powerful individuals from the worlds of finance, big business and right-wing politics will gather for a summit near Palm Springs, California, to discus how they will influence future elections. Down the road an anti-Koch gathe ...
• Cairo Scene of Violent Chaos as Protests Escalate
  Sarah El Deeb and Maggie Michael report: "Egypt's capital was the scene of violent chaos Friday as tens of thousands of anti-government protesters stoned and confronted police, who fired back with rubber bullets and tear gas - a major escalation in the biggest challenge to President Hosni Mubarak's ...
• Senator Yee Receives Racist Death Threats After Ca ...
  California State Senator Leland Yee has received racist death threats after calling on right-wing hate radio host Rush Limbaugh to apologize for mocking Chinese President Hu Jintao and the Chinese language. California State Senator Leland Yee (D-San Francisco) talks about the state's budget impas ...
• US Told to Drop Assange Pursuit
  Excerpt: "During his speech for the New York Bar Association award, presented for distinction in international law and affairs, Mr. Robertson cautioned the US legal fraternity against 'aiming the blunderbuss of its 1917 Espionage Act, death penalty and all, at a publisher who is a citizen of a frien ...

War Resisters League

• Anti-war Activists to Grand Jury: “We will not par ...
  Tuesday, January 25th was the day that 23 anti-war and Palestine solidarity activists were made to appear before a Federal Grand Jury in Chicago. It was also the day that all of them refused to testify. In solidarity with those targeted by government repression, several rallies were held in cities a ...
• The other “Afghanistan Report”
  Whose stories are we telling about the war in Afghanistan? On the day following the White House report on the war in Afghanistan that names the war as a qualified success and calls for the U.S. to “stay the course,” we must lift up the alternative stories and reports of this near-decade of occupatio ...
• Join the Online Demonstration for Peace in Korea - ...
  President Obama is sending the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS George Washington (carrying 75 warplanes and a crew of over 6000) and other warships for additional war-games with the South Korean military beginning Sunday, November 28.� This only escalates the already tense situation on the Kore ...
• IVAW Women’s Retreat this weekend!
  Dear Supporters, My name is Joyce Wagner. I am a Marine Corps veteran who served in Iraq in 2004 and 2005, and I am a member of Iraq Veterans Against the War. This Labor Day, IVAW women will hold our first ever retreat in support of women veterans. Your donation today will help us make [...]
• Protest nuclear warhead test launch tomorrow!
  Protest September 14, 11:55 pm (midnight) missile launch at Vandenberg Air Force Base: NOTE 09/14/10: THIS LAUNCH AND PROTEST HAVE BEEN CANCELED– More info to come! Join the protest of the test launch of a Minuteman III Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) thermo-nuclear warhead delivery system ...

Center for a Livable Future

• Shovel ready: Cuban urban agriculture as job creat ...
  Iâve just returned from eight days in Cuba studying their sustainable agricultural system — especially their urban agriculture sector — and I have several key take-aways. One of the biggest insights was the untapped potential of urban agriculture as a creator of good jobs. The Cuban system was re ...
• New kit can help farmers reduce pesticide impact
  A Farmer Information Kit released recently by the Maryland Pesticide Network (MPN) seems to show that concern about the impacts of pesticides on our environment and health is becoming more widespread, judging by the organizations and disciplines that were part of the kit’s production. The kit is a ...
• Leading U.S. Food Service Provider Introduces Meat ...
  The national non-profit Meatless Monday campaign is proving to be “The Little Engine That Could” in the environmental public health world. In just the last two years national awareness of Meatless Monday more than doubled. According to a commissioned survey by FGI Research more than 30 percent of Am ...
• Cuban Pesos: A Farmer’s Market Experience
  CLF’s Sr. Research Program Coordinators Jesse Kurtz-Nicholl and Sarah Rodman are visiting Cuba as part of a Natural Environmental Ecological Management delegation. Members of the group will see first hand large-scale Cuban infrastructure developed to support its 18-year-old, world-renowned sustainab ...
• Conference Envisions a Very Different Future Harve ...
  Thirty years ago, Bruce Springsteen wrote the lyric “from small things, mama, big things one day come.” In a sense, that was part of the message of Fred Kirschenmann’s keynote address at the 12th annual conference of Future Harvest-Chesapeake Alliance for Sustainable Agriculture, although his addres ...

A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation

• The FP Salon: Peter Bergen's The Longest War
  An FP round-table discussion on counterterrorism expert Peter Bergen's latest book. A decade after 9/11, is the war on terrorism a war we can win?
• Crazy Like a Fox
  In a fit of anger, Hamid Karzai axes his director of intelligence, Amrullah Saleh. But is there method to his madness?
• Addicted to Contractors
  The United States is hooked on privatized warfare in Afghanistan. And it's more costly than you think.
• How to Whip the Afghan Army Into Shape
  Much of President Barack Obama's strategy rests on the creation of a new, more competent Afghan military. Here's what he'll need to know to get the job done.
• Obama's Indecent Interval
  Despite the U.S. president's pleas to the contrary, the war in Afghanistan looks more like Vietnam than ever.

Field Notes - Alberta Environment

• Approval of Total oilsands mine deeply flawed
  Pembina Institute Toxics Watch Fort McMurray Environmental Association Ecojustice ...
• Pembina Reacts: Genesee III coal power plant must ...
  Pembina Institute 28 Jan 2011 EDMONTON, AB — Simon Dyer, policy director of the Pembina Institute, made the following statement in response to the Alberta Utilities Commission decisio ...
• COMMENT: Sierra Club Prairie on approval of Total ...
  Sierra Club Prairie 27 Jan 2011 Sheila Muxlow, Director with the Sierra Club Prairie had the following to say about the approval of Total's Joslyn�Mine. "Merely minutes after cele ...
• COMMENT: Sierra Club Prairie on Rob Renner's appoi ...
  Sierra Club Prairie 27 Jan 2011 Dustin Johnson, Energy Campaigner with the Sierra Club Prairie had the following to say about Environment Minister Rob Renner’s tar sands monitoring ann ...
• Pembina reacts to the new Canada-U.S. climate repo ...
  Pembina Institute 25 Jan 2011 Clare Demerse, associate director of the Pembina Institute's climate change program, made the following statement in response to today's release of the�"P ...

Stop NATO

• Washington Intensifies Push Into Central Asia
  Stop NATO January 29, 2011 Washington Intensifies Push Into Central Asia Rick Rozoff A recent editorial on the website of Voice of America reflected on last year being one in which the United States solidified relations with the five former Soviet republics in Central Asia: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, T ...
• Afghanistan: War Without End In A World Without Co ...
  Stop NATO January 27, 2011 Afghanistan: War Without End In A World Without Conscience Rick Rozoff The largest foreign military force ever deployed in Afghanistan is now well into the tenth year of the longest and what has become the deadliest war of the 21st century. Some 154,000 occupation troops, ...
• Ivory Coast: Testing Ground For U.S.-Backed Africa ...
  Stop NATO January 23, 2011 Ivory Coast: Testing Ground For U.S.-Backed African Standby Force Rick Rozoff The announcements of presidential election results last month in West Africa and Eastern Europe have served as the pretext for the United States and its allies in the North Atlantic Treaty Organi ...
• Britain Spearheads “Mini-NATO” In Arct ...
  Stop NATO January 22, 2011 Britain Spearheads “Mini-NATO” In Arctic Ocean, Baltic Sea Rick Rozoff On January 19 and 20 British Prime Minister David Cameron hosted his counterparts from Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania at the first Nordic Baltic Summit to conso ...
• Washington To Rearm Georgia For New Conflicts
  Stop NATO January 14, 2011 Washington To Rearm Georgia For New Conflicts Rick Rozoff Recent reports in the Russian news media have detailed plans by the U.S. to provide the Mikheil Saakashvili government in Georgia with tens of millions of dollars worth of anti-aircraft and anti-tank weapons. The Ru ...

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Intel Hub

• Murdered Arizona Judge Stood Firm With Sheriff Mac ...
  American Free Press By Pat Shannan During the hours following the Tucson tragedy, as the details slowly emerged and we learned that a relatively unknown congresswoman was seriously wounded and a federal judge had been among the six killed, many Americans wondered if there was a specific target and w ...
• Micro Drones to Fly Surveillance Missions Over The ...
  Activist Post - The Intel Hub By Michael Edwards and Alex Thomas In 2007, it was revealed by reporters in Texas that unmanned drones were being used in supposed border control operations.  We detailed that report with supporting evidence that drones clearly were being used inland away from border co ...
• Payday Monsanto On Israel, Truth Music, and Cointe ...
  The Intel Hub Payday Monsanto has used music to expose the global elite in a way that can be understood. With songs such as Sheeple of America, he has used hip hop to inform the masses. In a society with horrible so called “rappers” Payday has brought a fresh voice to the truth music scene. [...]
• Robocop: Drones at Home
  Boston Review By Joseph Nevins In September 2010 the House Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) Caucus held a technology fair. In the foyer of the Rayburn House Office Building, dozens of people hovered around tables covered with literature, video screens showing images of the earth’s surface, and models ...
• US Interference In Egypt, Tunisia, Yemen, Algeria, ...
  Protests inspired by the revolt in Tunisia have dominoed along Egypt, Yemen and Algeria. Some have drawn comparisons to the colour revolutions seen in post-Soviet countries. To discuss this RT talks to William Engdahl – author of the book ‘Full Spectrum Dominance: Totalitarian Democracy in the new w ...

FRS

• After Tunisia: Poet Mourid Barghouti on Palestine
  “Nothing goes off suddenly; even the earthquakes set in motion from the depth of the earth to the rooftops of villages.” This line from a poem I had written two decades ago jumped into my mind when the youth of Tunisia turned their ruler from a mighty dictator into a frightened rat looking for a [.. ...
• EGYPT UNDER CURFEW AS UPRISING GATHERS PACE
  Sky News, Friday, January 28, 2011: Egypt’s president Hosni Mubarak has sent in tanks to take on the tens of thousands of protesters who remain on the streets calling for an end to his rule. As the sun set on the fourth day of anti-government demonstrations across Egypt, a nationwide curfew was orde ...
• Sudan: A Call for Peaceful Demonstrations “t ...
  Peaceful Demonstrations To Take Place In Sudan 30 January 2011 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE PRLog (Press Release) – Jan 28, 2011 – PEACEFUL DEMONSTRATIONS TO TAKE PLACE IN SUDAN 30 JANUARY 2011 Contact:  Adil Abdel Aati, Liberal Democratic Party, abdelaati@gmail.com, +48 888524519 KHARTOUM, SUDAN —  A grou ...
• Protesters in New York Area Take Aim at U.S. Posit ...
  New York Times January 28, 2011 By ALICE SPERI and DAN BILEFSKY JERSEY CITY — Waving Egyptian flags, chanting slogans in English and Arabic and setting fire to a photo of President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt, about 100 men, women and children gathered Friday afternoon here in Journal Square to support t ...
• 1/27/11: Anti-government protests erupt in Yemen
  Protestors are putting pressure on governments across the Arab world – demanding changes in leadership and policies. In Yemen, tens of thousands of people marched in the capital, Sanaa. Opposition groups are calling for the president to stand down, after more than three decades in power. Al Jazeera’ ...

Ken O'Keefe

• Rise People Rise – The Global Revolution is ...
  Let us realize once and for all, that we the people are one, that we are human, that our most precious gift is that of our humanity. Let us never sacrifice it again. Together we are unstoppable. We are the sleeping giant, we are the waking lion, we are fierce and we are fearless.
• The Samouni Family Children – Survivors of t ...
  January 12, 2011 is a day I will never forget, visiting the Samouni family could not possibly be anything but a life-changing event.  Words simply cannot describe the devastation wrought upon this family by a marauding band of Israeli psychopaths, otherwise known as the Givati Brigade of the Israeli ...
• On the verge of Cast Lead II, a look back
  Today our team in Gaza met the Awaja family from Thabat.  There were nine members of this family, seven children aged 1 to 12 years old, but one son was murdered during Operation Cast Lead (2008-2009), so seven children is now six.  Today we visited a few days in the life of this family, courtesy [. ...
• Egyptian Blockade of Gaza – Blocking Ramsey ...
  Egyptian Blockade of Gaza – Ramsey Clark, former Attorney General Of the US but long time enemy of US imperialism is being blocked by Egypt (under US orders) into entering Gaza at this moment. All required protocols were followed on the Egyptian side, but once again Egypt plays its role in collabora ...
• Egypt Blocking Yet Another Humanitarian Aid Convoy ...
  Right now the Asian Convoy to Gaza is having the same problems with the Egyptian government that virtually every convoy has, including the Road to Hope Convoy (R2H). The corruption of the Egyptian regime and the active role it plays in blockading Gaza, partial though it may be, shames all Arabs, sha ...

StillSmallVoice

• Walk like an Egyptian
  And thanks, Vegas.
• If you're following the events in Egypt:
  (Anon brings up a good point, that we aren't covering it much), Al Jazeera is an excellent source. And thanks, Rabia, for the link. AP photo
• About the full Bug:
  I use any excuse to avoid coming into the office, and since the weather worked�in my favor recently I hadn't checked the Fill the Bug bin in two days. Big mistake. Huge. In my absence, a buncha do-gooders filled that bin, and when I came in, Benny the Nice Security Guy pointed me around the corner ...
• Will you be my friend, no-I-really-mean-it?
  And this Still Small Voice commenter is obviously thrilled to be all trussed up for her First Communion. Class? Any guesses?
• Will you be my friend, for real?
  Alright. The first two Will You Be My Friends -- in which we were at Still Small Voice are reminded that there are people behind these comments -- were too easy. Let's make it more challenging. This lil' nubbin is maybe 3 years old. She doesn't comment here frequently, and here she is, standing in ...

Associated Content

• Egypt's Political Turmoil Explained
  Egypt is a country in crisis, and its future hinges on current political activity.Contributor: Ron White Published: Jan 28, 2011
• TNT Apologizes for What Tracy Morgan Said About Sa ...
  Hateful things have been said about Sarah Palin by various media personalities ever since she rose to national prominence. But nothing quite descends to the level that Tracy Morgan went on a recent episode of "Inside the NBA" on TNT.Contributor: Mark Whittington Published: Jan 28, 2011
• Challenger Disaster Defined by Christa McAuliffe
  Millions watched the space shuttle Challenger break apart 25 years ago today. But they were watching in the first place because of Christra McAuliffe, the first school teacher in space. Yet her involvement only amplified the tragedy to come.Contributor: Robert Dougherty Published: Jan 28, 2011
• Taco Bell Battles Lawsuit Over Beef, Takes Out Ad ...
  An Alabama law firm has filed a suit against Taco Bell. They are claiming the restaurant chain misleads customers on the quality of the beef it sells.Contributor: Jeanne Rose Published: Jan 28, 2011
• Rasmussen Poll: Public Negative on Obama State of ...
  President Obama's call for more spending as an "investment" in fostering economic growth and job creation has fallen on deaf ears, according to a Rasmussen Poll. The results are not particularly surprising, considering the outcome of the last election.Contributor: Mark Whittington Published: Jan 27, ...

Popsci - Science

• This Week in the Future, January 24-28, 2011
  According to a certain President's certain yearly speech, we're in for a great future of scientific progress (not that he looks too confident in this picture). But we say, pshaw! Anyone who's been reading PopSci over the past week--specifically, the five stories hidden above--would have come to the ...
• Researchers Call For Creation of Standardized METI ...
  Since the first binary code sent from Puerto Rico in 1974, our messages to aliens have been increasingly complicated and cryptic, possibly so much that extraterrestrials won’t get what we’re saying. A trio of astrophysicists from the US and France hope to change that by building an extraterrestria ...
• What Could Possibly Go Wrong: Genetically-Modified ...
  Genetically engineered mosquitoes could even spread genes to other insects As carriers for diseases such as malaria, dengue fever and yellow fever, mosquitoes are the deadliest creatures on the planet, responsible for millions of human deaths every year. And as the planet warms, the insects are bro ...
• A Smart Pill Box Uses Face Recognition Tech to Ens ...
  For people with memory-degrading conditions like Alzheimer’s, it’s not always easy, or even possible, to remember to take one’s medicine. Yet forgetting to take your meds—or perhaps worse, forgetting that you already took them and doubling up—can derail a dosage schedule and in worse cases be detri ...
• Malaysia Releases 6,000 Genetically Modified Mosqu ...
  Over the protests of environmental groups and NGOs, Malaysia has released 6,000 genetically modified mosquitoes into the wild, hoping to drive down incidents of mosquito-borne dengue fever. It’s the first experiment of its kind in Asia, but naturally everyone isn’t thrilled with the idea of releasi ...

Veterans Today

• Gilad Atzmon: Liberating the American People
  In his latest Newsweek article Stephen Kinzer wonders who  America is betting on to counter the popular  rising forces in the Middle East : “The same friends it has been betting on for decades” he answers.   “Mubarak’s pharaonic regime in Egypt, Mahmoud Abbas and his Palestinian Authority, the Saudi ...
• Tucson: Memories and the impact of unspeakable tre ...
  Tucson… By Mike Harris STAFF WRITER Today is the 25th anniversary of the space shuttle Challenger disaster. I will never forget where I was that tragic afternoon. It is a remarkable human trait that we benchmark tragic events and remember precisely where we were and what we were doing. Who can forge ...
• Kashmir: A dangerous nuclear flashpoint
  By Brig Asif Haroon Raja Sixty three years have lapsed but Kashmir dispute remains unresolved. During this period, besides several military standoffs, two full fledged Indo-Pak wars and two localised conflicts in April 1965 and in summer of 1999 took place on account of Kashmir issue. India has been ...
• Ken O’Keefe: Rise People Rise – The Global ...
  “…..once in a generation…we get a chance for freedom…this is our chance..” “I have for many years lived with the knowledge that we, the masses, the working class, the poor, the white, the black, the brown, the immigrants, the Christians, the Muslims, the atheists, the soldiers/ex-soldiers, the peace ...
• Updated – Even VFW Opposes Tea Partier Miche ...
  “I want her to look those disabled veterans in the eye and tell them their service and sacrifice is too expensive for the nation to bear,” says angry veteran Update: Veterans for Common Sense executive director Paul Sullivan, said “cutting veteransâ health care spending is an ill-advised move at a t ...

War is Business

• Egyptian President’s Private Jets Have Cost ...
  The US government has spent hundreds of millions of dollars over the years to equip the Egyptian security forces with high-tech military hardware.Thanks for subscribing to War Is Business. Join the investigation and register for free, or
• Sure, ‘Buy Afghan’—But Get The Extende ...
  Petraeus failed to state what everyone must know: Karzai himself is tied to one of the biggest criminal patronage networks in Afghanistan.Thanks for subscribing to War Is Business. Join the investigation and register for free, or
• 60 Years Of American Arms Exports To The Muslim Wo ...
  The table here offers a simple comparison of US arms sales worldwide and to what the Pentagon calls "the Near East and South Asia." This super-region corresponds roughly with the Islamic world.Thanks for subscribing to War Is Business. Join the investigation and register for free, or
• Government Backed With US Guns Arrests Activist Ba ...
  Saudi military official on civilian deaths in Yemen: “If we had the Predator, maybe we would not have this problem." Thanks for subscribing to War Is Business. Join the investigation and register for free, or
• Government Backed With US Guns Arrests Activist Ba ...
  Saudi military official on civilian deaths in Yemen: “If we had the Predator, maybe we would not have this problem." Thanks for subscribing to War Is Business. Join the investigation and register for free, or

Hudson's Weather & Climate

• Global temperature forecast for 2011
  Last year, according to the Met Office Hadley Centre, was the second warmest on record with a temperature anomaly of 0.50C above the 1961-1990 average. This was very close, but slightly below their forecast which was issued at the Copenhagen climate summit in December 2009. It stated global temper ...
• Met Office: 2010 Globally second warmest on record
  Last week, researchers at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York, where temperature records extend back to 1880, announced that global surface temperatures in 2010 tied with 2005 as the warmest on record. This was similar to data released by National Oceanic and Atmospheric A ...
• The Met Office DID forecast a cold winter.
  There's been much in the news over the last week or so, regarding the issue of whether or not the Met Office did forecast a cold winter, and if so was this communicated to the government. You can read one version of events in the Independent newspaper by clicking here. Readers of this blog will kno ...
• Coal takes the strain...again.
  On BBC Look North on friday I reported that during the recent intense cold weather, it's been our traditional coal and gas fired power stations that have been working flat out to keep our homes and businesses warm. And for the third winter running, the intense cold has gone hand in hand with per ...
• December 2010 update: Second coldest since 1659
  Met Office provisional figures show that December 2010 with a mean CET temperature of -0.7C was the second coldest since records began in 1659, beaten only by December 1890 which had a mean of -0.8C. The diagram below shows how the month ranks with other cold Decembers, a truly memorable month cli ...

Internat'l Political Economy

• From Davos to Doha: WTO Round Done in 2011?
  Running over the same old ground What have we found? The same old fears Wish you were here And now for some postcards from Davos. Sometime ago, I had a self-parodying feature of T-shirts being sold at the WTO headquarters gift shop in Geneva depicting how trade talks to conclude the Doha Developmen ...
• Of Sexy Russian Spies and 'Erotic Capital'
  Lest you think I've become an econodullard obsessed with discount rates and multiplier effects--it's easy enough to find plenty enough of those without looking hard--here's funner stuff that showcases the diversity which the best IPE encompasses. Freakonomics-style dweebery doesn't count by the way; ...
• Climate Apartheid? The India-Bangladesh Superfence
  My friend came to me, with sadness in his eyes He told me that he wanted help Before his country dies And so begin the lyrics to "Bangla Desh" from George Harrison's Concert for Bangla Desh held on 1 August 1971 in Madison Square Garden. Well before we had Sir Bono and Sir Bob Geldof, Live Aid and ...
• Financial Wargaming: If China Dumps US Treasuries
  Boo! Here's a fun feature you may have overlooked. Well, let's just say it's fun contemplating--I offer no guarantees if it will be enjoyable if it comes through. It is said that popular entertainment gains resonance from being not entirely disconnected with reality. In particular, resonating with c ...
• Will Japan Join the Trans-Pacific Partnership PTA?
  If there's a developed country suffering from typical developed country maladies, it's Japan. Massive public debt (largely counterbalanced by huge FX reserves some would argue); a shrinking and aging population; chronic deflation; and a moribund non-export oriented sectorare among its many woes. Mea ...

Economic Collapse Blog

• The Riots In Egypt And The Price Of Oil
  As if the world economy did not have enough problems already, now the riots in Egypt threaten to send the price of oil soaring into the stratosphere.  On Friday, the price of U.S. crude soared 4 percent.  A 4 percent rise in a single day is pretty staggering.  The price of Brent cru ...
• Doom And Gloom
  Have you noticed that most Americans seem to know far more about American Idol, Dancing with the Stars, Justin Bieber and their favorite sports teams than they do about world affairs?  Most Americans cannot even find Tunisia and Algeria on a map, and if you told them that food riots ...
• Warning Signs
  Do you see all of the warning signs that are flashing all around you?  These days it seems like there is more bad economic news in a single week than there used to be in an entire month.  2011 is already shaping up to be a very dark year for the world economy.  The price [...]
• Shut Down The Federal Reserve, Break Up The Big Ba ...
  How do we fix the economy?  That is a question that tens of millions of Americans are asking right now.  Republicans are harshly criticizing the empty economic proposals being put forward by Barack Obama and the Democrats, but the Republicans don't seem to have any real solutions ei ...
• 20 Shocking New Economic Records That Were Set In ...
  2010 was quite a year, wasn't it?  2010 will be remembered for a lot of things, but for those living in the United States, one of the main things that last year will be remembered for is economic decline.  The number of foreclosure filings set a new record, the number of home reposs ...

Infoshop - Alt Media

• Philadelphia: Seeking submissions for defenestrato ...
  It's cold! A good time to stay in and write that piece you keep meaning to for Philly's radical paper of optimism and refusal defenestrator. Our...
• NYC Anarchist Book Fair Table and Presentation App ...
  The 5th Annual NYC Anarchist Book Fair will be held Saturday, April 9, 2011, at Judson Memorial Church, 55 Washington Square South, NYC. Present...
• New Issue: Anarcho-Syndicalist Review #55
  The Winter 2011 issue of Anarcho-Syndicalist Review (#55) is now available. This issue features a special section on workers' culture and marks ...
• Some Anarchists Discuss What We’re Reading
  Instead of a book review column written by one person, we invited several folks to review their favorite recent books. Three responded: Cindy ...
• Resistance issue 128, December 2010 - January 2011
  Full text and PDF of the Anarchist Federation's free paper. Contents include the growing student movement in the UK, resisting the cuts, struggles ...

E U Times

• British scientists ‘invent artificial petrol’ that ...
  Artificial petrol that costs 19p per litre could be on forecourts in as little as three years. British scientists are refining the recipe for a hydrogen-based fuel that will run in existing cars and engines at the fraction of the cost of conventional petrol. With hydrogen at its heart rather than ca ...
• Boom in immigration helped cause the economic cris ...
  David Cameron today identified immigration as being partly responsible for the economic crisis gripping the country. The Prime Minister said ‘unsustainable levels of public spending and immigration’ were among the problems inherited by the Coalition when they won the keys to Downing Street. In a spe ...
• Internet and text messaging switched off in Egypt
  Egypt’s decision to turn off the Internet last night, denying users access to Twitter, Facebook, and text messaging, couldn’t stop thousands of protesters from taking to the streets of Cairo Friday morning, with similar demonstrations in Suez, Alexandria, and Al Arish in northern Sinai. Supporters o ...
• New secret UFO Wikileaks cable revealed
  A source from within the inner circle of the Wikileaks team has confidentially leaked to All News Web the content of a State Dept cable, concerning UFO affairs, that Wikileaks has declined to upload onto their website. The cable states: “It is critical all embassy staff understand that they are not ...
• Yemen protests: Thousands call on president to lea ...
  Thousands of Yemenis are demonstrating in the capital Sanaa, calling on Ali Abdullah Saleh, president for more than 30 years, to step down. This comes after mass protests in Egypt and a popular uprising in Tunisia that ousted its long-time leader. Yemeni opposition members and youth activists gather ...

Voiceless Victim

• How Much More Evidence Do You Need Before You Stop ...
  Documentary evidence was revealed in Ireland this week proving that Catholic officials do not report sex crimes against children to the police, and that this is official Church policy originating from Rome. Such disclosures should have been answered with judicial inquiries, charges being laid, and i ...
• Bill Zeller and others must not die in vain
  The tragedy of Bill Zeller’s lifetime of suffering from the effects of childhood sexual and physical abuse, which finally resulted in his recent suicide has touched people around the world. Bill was obviously a very special person and a great loss to those who knew him, and the rest of the world. Bi ...
• Please Explain Why Catholic Bishops Get Away with ...
  I read with horror this week that a youth worker in the Northern Territory of Australia is facing charges under mandatory reporting laws. Her crime? While she did eventually report her concern about the possible sexual abuse of a five-year old child, she has been summonsed to appear before a magistr ...
• “Apostolic Visitation” another Papal P ...
  Will the "apostolic visitation" result in any real, concrete action, or is the Church driven PR resulting from the event an end in itself? Will the Church be held accountable for producing any changes or do they expect the smoke and mirrors of the "apostolic visitation" to obscure the fact that once ...
• Child Sexual Abuse Victims Abandoned by their Fami ...
  I have discovered a disturbing thing about children abused by Catholic Church sponsored sexual predators. I’ve met a lot of other victims recently and heard their histories, each one shocking in its own way. Each victim has their own twist of the knife that makes their story truly heart wrenching, s ...

WL Central

• 2011-01-07 EFF: The Best of Cablegate: Instances W ...
  TweetEFF has chosen the cables they feel have "been critical to understanding and evaluating controversial events." Their choices: “Dancing Boy” Scandal Alleges Child Prostitution, Possible Drug Use among U.S. Private Contractors Pfizer Allegedly Sought to Blackmail Nigerian Regulator to Stop Lawsu ...
• Twitter Details & Messages of Birgitta Jónsdóttir ...
  TweetThe US Department of Justice has issued a subpoena on Twitter for material related to Birgitta Jónsdóttir, including her personal details and, it can be assumed, all her private direct messages. Ms Jónsdóttir twittered thus: department of justice are requesting twitter to provide the info - i ...
• 2011-01-08: Peter King: Zeal of Hypocrites
  TweetA month ago, on the 7th of December, a week after Peter King made his controversial Wikileaks Is Terrorism" comments, I posted this rather lengthy article to my blog, and linked to it from WL Central, documenting both King's hypocrisy and the possible motives he might have for taking such a rad ...
• 2011-01-08: U.S. DOJ Twitter Subpoena Updates
  TweetShortly after news of the subpoena issued to Twitter by the The U.S. Department of Justice emerged, an electronic copy of the subpoena surfaced and was, of course, circulated via Twitter. (A copy of the subpoena can be found here in pdf format.) Birgitta Jónsdóttir, one of 63 members of Iceland ...
• 2011-01-08: Twitter on censorship: No censorship o ...
  TweetIt was December 14 when Twitter first received the sealed order to turn over information on several of its users. Twitter could simply have provided the information requested, instead of acting, on January 5, to have the order unsealed. The unsealing of the subpoena allowed the Twitter users in ...

U N News

• UN agency welcomes Mexico's new refugee law
  The United Nations refugee agency today welcomed the entry into force of a new law in Mexico on the protection of refugees and asylum-seekers that now gives the country a legal framework that complies with international standards in this area.
• UN: Number of cholera deaths in Haiti shows signs ...
  The number of people dying from cholera in Haiti has been on a downward trend or has stabilized in all ten of the country's departments affected by the outbreak, the United Nations humanitarian office reported today, adding that the number of hospitalized people has also been decreasing.
• Latin American and Caribbean unemployment dropped ...
  The economic upturn in most Latin American and Caribbean countries in 2010 fuelled a 0.6 percentage point drop in unemployment - from 8.1 per cent in 2009 to 7.5 per cent - and is expected to lead to a further decrease of between 0.2 and 0.4 percentage points this year, the United Nations reported t ...
• UN human rights chief voices concern over migrants ...
  The United Nations human rights chief today voiced deep concern over the fate of a group of about 40 migrants who have been missing since they were abducted in Mexico last month, and death threats to a prominent human rights defender assisting other migrants who escaped the kidnapping ordeal.
• Haiti must respect international mission's elector ...
  Haiti's electoral council must take full account of an international mission's findings, reportedly eliminating the Government candidate from the presidential run-off, or face the prospect of considerable unrest, the United Nations peacekeeping chief warned today.

Conspiracy Reality TV

• Mystery Missile Launch, Big Pharma Begins Microchi ...
  Once activated by stomach acid, the embedded microchip begins sensing its environment and broadcasting data to a receiver worn by the patient. This receiver is also a transmitter that can send the data over the internet to a doctor.
• 7/7: Seeds of Deconstruction
  The British Government's story of what happened, how, and why is contained in three reports comprising just over 200 pages. There is virtually no forensic physical evidence in the public domain. The first two reports were published simultaneously in 2006, ten months after 7/7. One was a home office ...
• The Absurdity Of Starting A Small Business In The ...
  In the 1950s only about 1 in 20 Americans needed the government blessing to do their job. Today, that number is more than 1 in 3. And government puts all kinds of requirements on would be entrepreneurs making it harder for these entrepreneurs to start and grow small businesses.
• CIA Whistleblower: “Heart Attack Gun”
  Senator: Does this pistol fire the dart? CIA Dir: Yes, it does, Mr. Chairman, and a special one was developed which potentially would be able to enter the target without perception.
• Naked Truth Behind Body Scanners
  He's abusing his relationship with the public by pretending to be a public servant and talking about how these back-scatter scanners are going to make us safer? He stands to benefit because he's getting payed by the manufacturing companies to go all over the networks saying that these scanners are T ...

Rewilding Institute

• Conservation News Brief
  Captain Paul Watson to arrive in Australia for final preparations for Operation Musashi Friday Harbor, WA – Just days after reaffirming that they will head to the Southern Oceans alone to defend the whales in the Antarctic Whale Sanctuary, even after Greenpeace and the Australian government have ...
• Whaling Opponents Collide at Sea
  On board the Steve Irwin in the Ross Sea –February 6th, 2009, 0800 Hours (Sydney Time)  February 5th, 2009 1300 Hours (PST), 75 Degrees 44 Minutes South and 165 Degrees 39 Minutes West The Sea Shepherd ship Steve Irwin collided with the Yushin Maru No.2 this morning in the Ross Sea as the harpoon v ...
• Dave Foreman’s Recent Speech At Nebraska Wesleyan ...
  Here’s a great speech Dave did in Nebraska recently. Fetzer Lecture Rewilding North America THURSDAY, MARCH 26 Click Here To Listen In!
• New Website All About Mexican Gray Wolves!
  There are only 52 Mexican gray wolves in the wilds of Arizona and New Mexico. The Rewilding Institute has joined with local, regional, and national conservation, scientific, and sportsmen’s organizations, and concerned citizens in launching a new website, mexicanwolves.org, to help save this highly ...
• Follow Rewilding On Twitter
  We’ve gotten with the times and signed up for a brand new Twitter account.  Now you can follow TRI on Twitter and get updates when we have new posts on the site. Follow Rewilding on Twitter!

Asia Sentinel

• Dalai Lama's 1959 Flight from Tibet
  Trance and artillery shells pushed the religious leader to leave Lhasa
• Book Review: Wine Book of the Year (Asia) & Best W ...
  108 Great Chinese Dishes Paired. By Ch'ng Poh Tiong. Published by Wine Review, available in good bookshops, HK$380 and online at www.108chinesepairings.com
• US, South Korea: Dangerous Policy Toward the North
  Sunset for South Korea's Sunshine Policy
• Burma: End of an Era or a Dynasty's Beginning ?
  The Burmese Road to Socialism it isn't…
• China Prepares for New Leadership
  Will the lame duck factor crimp Hu Jintao's style

We Know the Lies

• HR 91... New Bill Introduced to STOP the Upcoming ...
  In 2007, the U.S. Congress passed the Energy Independence and Security Act which contains a subsection that bans the sale of incandescent light bulbs beginning in 2012. The new Congress recently unveiled the Better Use of Light Bulbs Act, or H.R. 91, which would repeal this subsection and restor ...
• Constitution is 'VOID' in the Courtrooms!... U.S. ...
  The U.S. Supreme Court issued a landmark decision that serves to allow judges to void the Constitution in their courtrooms.  The decision was issued on January 18, 2011, and the Court did not even explain the decision (Docket No. 10-632, 10-633, and 10-690).  One word decisions...   D E N I E ...
• China... Mobile Execution Buses and Massive Body ...
  China executes three times as many people than all of the countries combined! ~ Videos read more
• (Get a Load Of This...) Domino’s Pizza Receives $1 ...
  While food riots have begun emerging across the globe as a result of surging food prices, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has decided to funnel 12 million dollars into the popular pizza chain Domino’s Pizza, in what has become known as a secret government bailout! read more
• Obamacare... Comprehensive List of New or Higher T ...
  Next week, the U.S. House of Representatives will be voting on an historic repeal of the Obamacare law.  While there are many reasons to oppose this flawed government health insurance law, it is important to remember that Obamacare is also one of the largest tax increases in American history.  ...

Tatumba 2.0

• Euro on way to a crash?
  Jayati Ghosh: The future of the eurozone itself is now at stake This post is courtesy of Robbie the Robot Please recycle. Don't throw away your peels Related posts:BREAKING NEWS: Major dip in gold & silver prices expected. Recently I became a subscriber to Porter Stansberry’s newsletter from... Bob ...
• Ganesh Silver Coin 1 Ounce 31 Grams in Pure Silver ...
  Ganesh Silver Coin 1 Ounce 31 Grams in Pure Silver 40mm Ganesh Coin Hindu God He is sitting Pure silver coin, 100% silver 40mm wide, 3mm thick, 31 grams (1 ounce) In plastic case This is a coin with India Ganeshi; 31 grams pure silver w, 40mm diameter, 3mm thick; very shiny fine 100% silver [...] ...
• WikiLeaks Julian Assange US Extradition Involving ...
  Ahh look what the scumbags are planning. The Fascist elements in America need to get over it.. Julian Assange has not broken any law. Wikileaks, whether or not a co-opted government agency, has still shown that the USA Military and its allies are guilty of war crimes. That this the reality of the si ...
• How to test gold to see if it is real
  bit.ly … A brief Introduction to GoldMoney a digital gold currency for the information age. A perfect solution to buy gold bullion online. GoldMoney enables its customers to redeem and take physical delivery of their gold in handy units of 100 gram or one kilo (1000 gram) gold bars, through our part ...
• Harvey Organ Reveals Scotiabank Bankster Activity ...
  DID HARVEY ORGAN BLOW THE LID OFF OF CANADIAN BANKING FRAUD? Scotiabank, aka The Bank of Nova Scotia, a major Canadian Bank, is engaged in dubious activities with respect to gold and silver, so says Harvey Organ. Here you have a guy who, because of a family wanting to rearrange their finances, broug ...

  Blacklisted News

• Egypt protests: America's secret backing for rebel ...
  The American government secretly backed leading figures behind the Egyptian uprising who have been planning “regime change” for the past three years, The Daily Telegraph has learned.
• GLOBAL MARKETS: Egypt unrest rattles world's marke ...
  CORRECT: OIL FUTURES: Crude Prices Soar On Egypt Protests‎ - Wall Street Journal Bullish Oil ETF Options Trades Soar to Record Amid Egypt Unrest‎ - Bloomberg Crude prices spike on Egypt worries‎ - CNNMoney
• How Egypt did (and how your government could) shut ...
  How hard is it, exactly, to kill the Internet? Egypt seems to have been able to do it. But Egypt's situation isn't exactly the same as that in the Western world. And even though Egypt only has four big ISPs, the fact that everything went down after midnight local time suggests that it took consi ...
• Lady Gaga’s New Fragrance Will Reportedly Smell Li ...
  According to sources in the fragrance industry hired to develop Lady Gaga‘s first fragrance, the pop star has requested that the scent “smell of blood and semen.”
• Orchestrated Storms: US sending waves through Yeme ...
  Protests inspired by the revolt in Tunisia have dominoed along Egypt, Yemen and Algeria. Some have drawn comparisons to the colour revolutions seen in post-Soviet countries. To discuss this RT talks to William Engdahl – author of the book ‘Full Spectrum Dominance: Totalitarian Democracy in the new w ...

The Intelligence Daily

• IntelFilter — January 21, 2010
  January 21, 2008: Black Monday in worldwide stock markets. FTSE 100 had its biggest ever one-day...
• The Onset of Catabolic Collapse
  By John Michael Greer I’ve commented more than once in these essays on the gap in perception...
• Why Pentagon Claims MLK Would Love War on Afghanis ...
  By David Swanson According to the Pentagon’s lawyer, Martin Luther King Jr., if alive today,...
• The Oil Employment Link – Part 2 – Looking at more ...
  Excerpt: Eventually, as electricity is completely lost, and as world trade deteriorates to a much...
• The More Americans That Go On Food Stamps The More ...
  By Michael T. Snyder JP Morgan is the largest processor of food stamp benefits in the United...

My AntiWar

• Syria Internet Disrupted as Egypt Blackout Catches ...
• Western Hypocrisy Towards the Arab World Stands Ex ...
• Egyptian Youth and New Dawn Hopes
• Egyptians Use Low-Tech Gadgets to Get Around Commu ...
• Suez Rioters Seize Police Station Amid Fear, Jubil ...

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

• Medvedev: No sign Iran making nuclear weapons
  Summary: Russian President Dmitry Medvedev says the international community has no proof that Iran is building nuclear weapons. source: China Dailyread more
• WITH “ENGAGEMENT” FAILING, WASHINGTON VOICES URGE ...
  Summary: Rajavi and SaddamPredictably, the Istanbul talks have ended without positive results. And, it seems clear that the discussion came to a dead end over two issues: –the Islamic Republic wanted explicit recognition of its right to enrich uranium which the United States (at least) was not ...
• Iran to P5+1: Stop following up Zionists
  Summary: A day after multifaceted talks between Iran and the P5+1, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad advises the six major world powers to stop following up the path of Israel. source: Press TVread more
• 'Iran open to talks, no preconditions set'
  Summary: A senior Iranian official says Tehran is ready for further talks with major world powers provided that its rights are not violated, refuting claims that it has set preconditions. source: Press TVread more
• Swiss Deny Linking UBS To Iran, Guantanamo Inmates
  Summary: The Swiss government Thursday denied directly linking economic sanctions against Iran and an offer to resettle two Guantanamo detainees in Switzerland to a U.S. case against Swiss bank UBS AG. He was responding to a leaked U.S. diplomatic cable from July 2009 made public by WikiLeaks, ...

The Daily Galaxy

• Supergiant Supernova: Betelgeuse Could Explode and ...
  Betelgeuse, one of the brightest stars in the sky, could burst into its supernova phase and become as bright as a full moon - and last for as long as a year. The massive star is visible in the winter...
• Mars Express Releases Images of Mystery Moon Phobo ...
  One of the least reflective bodies in the solar system, Mars largest moon, Phobos, orbits the planet below the synchronous orbit radius (it moves around Mars faster than the planet itself rotates). The images were taken by the European Space...
• Image of the Day: Puffins on Shiant Islands, Scotl ...
  Black-and-white razorbills (at right) and bright-beaked puffins (at left and in air, at center) find a perfect habitat on the Shiant Islands, a few miles southeast of Lewis, Scotland. Nearly 8,000 razorbills and more than 200,000 puffins are estimated to...
• 'The Daily Galaxy' January Contest -Win a Free $50 ...
  Use it towards a purchase of an iPhone, iPad, Apple TV or Hundreds of Other Apple Products and Accessories. Users of Facebook, Twitter, Digg, Reddit, and StumbleUpon are invited to discover, review and share Daily Galaxy posts you love on...
• NASA May 'Beam Up' Future Spaceships
  NASA is conducting a study to examine the possibility of using beamed energy propulsion for space launches that would involve focusing microwave or laser beams on a heat exchanger aboard the rocket. The heat exchanger would transfer the radiation’s energy...

Natural News

• Taco Bell beef faked? No more than the rest of the ...
  (NaturalNews) The word spread like wildfire across the internet: An Alabama law firm had filed a class action lawsuit against Taco Bell in California, saying its meat fails to meet the definition of beef set forth by the U.S. government (and even that's a pretty low hurdle, if you ask me). The lawsu ...
• Eating trans-fat-laden fast food linked to depress ...
  (NaturalNews) A new study put forth by the universities of Navarra and Las Palmas de Gran Canaria in Spain have found that diets rich in trans-fats -- like the kind found in most fast food meals -- increase the risk of depression by 50 percent. Even in Europe, where trans-fat consumption is far lowe ...
• Prominent university to ban bottled water
  (NaturalNews) Bottled water will soon be a thing of the past at the University of Canberra (UC) in Australia. At the prompting of student activists connected to the environmental group Do Something, the school has decided to cease all sales of bottled water beginning March 22, and provide drinking w ...
• USDA deregulates GE alfalfa; opens door to new era ...
  (NaturalNews) After months of pretending to review public feedback on the issue of GE alfalfa, the USDA has announced a surprise lifting of all restrictions on the genetically engineered crop, effectively allowing anyone to plant GE alfalfa anywhere, without any restriction. This is the USDA's surre ...
• Monsanto's Roundup Triggers Over 40 Plant Diseases ...
  The following article reveals the devastating and unprecedented impact that Monsanto's Roundup herbicide is having on the health of our soil, plants, animals, and human population.On top of this perfect storm, the USDA now wants to approve Roundup Ready alfalfa, which will exacerbate this calamity. ...

Threat Level

• Internet ‘Kill Switch’ Legislation Back in Play
  Legislation granting the president internet-killing powers is to be re-introduced soon to a Senate committee, the proposal’s chief sponsor told Wired.com on Friday. The resurgence of the so-called “kill switch” legislation came the same day Egyptians faced an internet blackout designed to counter ma ...
• Egypt Shut Down Its Net With a Series of Phone Cal ...
  Egypt’s largest ISPs shut off their networks Thursday, making it impossible for traffic to get to websites hosted in Egypt or for Egyptians to use e-mail, Twitter or Facebook. The regime of President Hosni Mubarak also ordered the shut down of mobile phone networks, including one run by the U.K.-bas ...
• Amazon.com Security Flaw Accepts Passwords That Ar ...
  An Amazon.com security flaw allows some customers to log in with variations of their actual password that are close to, but not exactly, their real password. The flaw lets Amazon accept as valid some passwords that have extra characters added on after the 8th character, and also makes the password ...
• Assange: ‘We Have to Survive This Leak’
  Three weeks before WikiLeaks and several media outlets began publishing a massive trove of U.S. diplomatic cables, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange expressed fear that the content of the cables was too explosive for his organization to withstand. “We have to survive this leak,” he told newspaper ed ...
• Internet Down in Egypt
  Mobile-phone texting, Blackberry messaging and internet service are suffering a major outage in Egypt as the Middle Eastern nation girds for what is likely to become the nation’s biggest protest following the bread riots of 1977. The Associated Press reported from Cairo that internet access went da ...

PERRspectives : Blog

• Iranian Martyrs Book Found on Mexican Border as Be ...
  They say it's better to be lucky than good. But on Thursday, Fox News host Glenn Beck may have been both. The night before, his pay-for Insider Extreme web site premiered "Rumors of War," an incendiary pseudo-documentary designed to drum up support for conflict with Tehran by claiming, among other ...
• Palin Declares Soviet Union Won the Space Race
  From war taxes and the First Amendment to Reagan's Iran/Contra scandal, how much energy her home state of Alaska produces and so much more, Sarah Palin doesn't know what she doesn't know. As her response to President Obama's State of the Union address showed, that long and growing list now includes ...
• Waiting for Krauthammer on Egypt
  As the Washington Post and the New York Times reported, the rapidly developing unrest in Egypt is just as quickly posing a major challenge to U.S. foreign policy in the region. On Tuesday, Secretary of State declared "the Egyptian government is stable" even as tens of thousands of protesters poured ...
• Pawlenty Echoes Obama in New Ad
  This week, former Minnesota Governor and obvious GOP White House hopeful Tim Pawlenty debuted a glitzy new ad to promote his new book and his upcoming candidacy. As it turns out, Pawlenty's timing in releasing his big-budget video just hours before the President's 2011 speech to Congress is altoget ...
• GOP Takes Credit, Deflects Blame on Economy. Again ...
  Two new surveys released today are just the latest signs the U.S. economic recovery is gaining steam. While a USA Today panel found "nine of 10 economists said they're more optimistic than three months ago," the National Association for Business Economics reported that "more firms expressing positi ...

Blackspot News Feed

• The Great Tax Cut Debate - Myths and Facts
  In the lame-duck Congress agenda, perhaps the most substantive debate is over whether to continue tax breaks for the rich. President Obama and most Congressional Democrats want to extend the Bush tax cuts for 98 percent of Americans, everyone making under $250,000. Republicans want to extend the tax ...
• What Landslide?: A Closer Look at the Midterm Elec ...
  By now, everyone has heard of the conservative "tidal wave" that has overtaken Congress and most gubernatorial seats throughout the U.S. Indeed, anyone who has watched mainstream media coverage probably understands the midterm election results as a "rebuke of Obama's policies," with the "Tea Party m ...
• INS Targets Community Leaders, Not Criminals
  When people the world over think of Arizona nowadays, they generally think of Governor Jan Brewer, Sheriff Joe Arpaio or state representative Russell Pearce – the poster children of the state's move toward legalized discrimination and racial profiling. If they are closely following the politics of t ...
• Dancing with Dynamite:How Citizens Can be More Tha ...
  Two years ago, President Obama sailed into the White House on the winds of voters’ desire for widespread social change and their disgust with two wars and a massive recession associated with George W. Bush. Only two years into his presidency and the concurrent Democratic takeover of Congress, howeve ...
• Pope Says Condoms Acceptable 'In Certain Cases'
  Until now, the Vatican had prohibited the use of any form of contraception -- other than abstinence -- even as a guard against sexually transmitted disease.

Consortium News

• New Republican Misconduct Ignored
  House Republicans take aim at the Obama administration, but evidence of GOP wrongdoing is ignored, observes Don Monkerud. January 26, 2011
• In Case You Missed These Stories
  Once a month, we look back at some of the previous month's special stories. Here's a selection from December.
• One-State Solution to Israel/Palestine?
  Israel's insistence on taking more Arab land has forced a refocusing on a one-state solution in Palestine, says Lawrence Davidson. January 26, 2011
• WPost Still Talking Tough on Iran
  As U.S. influence ebbs in the Middle East, the Washington Post is still fantasizing "regime change" in Iran, notes Robert Parry. January 25, 2011
• Chas Freeman's Defeat, a Neocon Win
  A key neocon success under President Obama was blocking diplomat Chas Freeman from an intelligence post, says David Swanson. January 25, 2011

CounterPunch

• :
• Alexander Cockburn : Autumn of the Driveler
• Carl Ginsburg : Life in the Low to Mid-Teens
• Alexander Cockburn : Loose-Lip McChrystal Did Obam ...
• Alexander Cockburn : He Should Have Kept His Mouth ...

Institute for Middle East Understanding

• Two Palestinians shot by settlers in 24 hours (Jo ...
  Israeli media reported earlier today that a 17-year-old Palestinian teenager was shot in the head by settlers in the village of Hirbat Safa, near the settlement of Bat Ayin and the town o ...
• The Weekly Demonstration in Bil'in (haitham al ka ...
• Israeli forces blast peaceful protesters with sewa ...
  A resident of Bil'in was wounded and dozens of residents, peace activists, and individuals wishing to show solidarity suffered severe teargas inhalation today. This was due to extensive t ...
• After Tunisia: Raja Shehadeh on Palestine (Raja S ...
  The demonstrations against oppression, injustice and violations of human rights that are taking place in Tunisia and Egypt bring back to me the heady days of the first Palestinian intifad ...
• A new truth dawns on the Arab world (Robert Fisk, ...
  The Palestine Papers are as damning as the Balfour Declaration. The Palestinian "Authority" - one has to put this word in quotation marks - was prepared, and is prepared to give up the "r ...

Water - AlterNet

• Why One Community's Cries for Help Against Cancer ...
  Residents claim a coal waste dump is poisoning water, polluting air, and causing asthma and cancer among those who live nearby. But no one will help.
• Peak Water: What Is it -- and Are We There Yet?
  Increasingly, around the world, in the U.S., and locally, we are running up against peak water limits.
• Big Coal's Watergate? Nation Watches as Clean Wate ...
  Extraordinary investigative work turned up over 20,000 incidences of Clean Water Act violations by three coal companies. Now will they finally be held accountable?
• New Evidence Finds the Clean Energy Benefits of Na ...
  When taking into account emissions from extraction and piping, gas may be as little as 25 percent cleaner than coal, or perhaps even less.
• 4 Surprising Places You Should Never Buy Seafood F ...
  Here is a quick-and-dirty list of four seafood retailers that have adopted reprehensible practices in their quest for fish-driven profit.

Public Citizen in Texas

• What is causing all this wicked weather?
  MSNBC’s Today Show host Matt Lauer interviews CUNY physics professor, Michio Kaku, about possible causes of these wild winter storms.  Click here to watch this segment. Filed under: Global Warming Tagged: climate change, Global Warming, wild storms
• Dumping on Texas for Fun and Profit
  SPECIAL GUEST COLUMN FROM JIM HIGHTOWER Originally posted at http://www.jimhightower.com/ Thank you, California. And you, too, Florida, Maine, Missouri, and the 32 other states that intend to send a very special gift to Texas â namely, their radioactive waste. Now there’s a gift that truly keeps on ...
• WCS press conferance 099 [Flickr]
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• WCS press conferance 098 [Flickr]
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• WCS press conferance 097 [Flickr]
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Unexplained Mysteries

• Sweet shop stocks up on bizarre treats
  Fancy a cheese and bacon flavoured Kit Kat? This London shop has this and more besides. Want to try a Plop from Sweden? How about Spunk from Denmark? ...
• Seahorses' body shape explained
  Scientists discover seahorses' bodies evolved to support a new way of catching food. Evolved from the pipe fish, the seahorse's unique 'S' shape has a...
• Scientists turn gold to purple
  A new way to harvest energy from sunlight has been found as gold turns purple in a new experiment. Professor Richard Watt and his students have found ...
• When will the world's largest volcano erupt ?
  Its been sitting dormant below Yellowstone National Park for 600,000 years and is now overdue. If it did explode it would do so with a force 1000 time...
• Gorilla that walks like a man filmed at zoo
  Ambam the gorilla has become an internet sensation after being filmed walking like a human. A resident of Port Lympne Wild Animal Park in Kent Ambam's...

Grassroots

• Manifest Haiti: U.S. Food Aid and Monsanto
  4681874221_9aa39475ec_b.jpg Make no mistake; Haiti needs seeds and food. Following last January�s devastating earthquake, it�s been all hands on deck in the small island nation�but decision making on rebuilding�is very often�in all hands but H ...
• Man-made disasters need human solutions: Honduras ...
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• One Year on in Haiti
  Previous Publication Info Previous publication:� Huffington Post Outside Link:� One Year on in Haiti oneyear.jpg Shee ...
• God Willing and the Creek Don’t Rise…
  Subheadline:� Planning for disaster is part of responsible development river-haiti.jpg Those living on the margins have very little wiggle room for survival even in good times.�But ...
• Gaza: Stories of Strength amid Assault and Siege
  3407229255_9879b60da3_b.jpg �Year before last, I was sitting in the living room of my childhood home sharing a cup of morning coffee with my mother and musing over the holidays. We laughed over kitschy Christmas gifts from well-meaning relativ ...

Climate

• Arctic Current Warmer than for 2,000 Years: Study
  Source:� Reuters A current flowing into the Arctic Ocean is warmer than for at least 2,000 years in a sign that global warming is likely to bring ice-free seas around the North Pole in summers, a study showed.
• UN Climate Talks in Focus at Davos Forum
  Source:� AP Businesses, especially U.S. ones, must get more involved in the effort to slow climate change and help pressure politicians to enact policies that promote green growth, international leaders said. �
• Alberta Conditionally Approves Totals New Joslyn O ...
  Source:� Green Car Congress A Joint Review Panel of the Government of Alberta's Energy Resources Conservation Board (ERCB) has conditionally approved Total�s Joslyn oil sands mine.
• European Commission Extends Carbon Market Freeze I ...
  Source:� Guardian Europe's suspension of trading in carbon allowances to put a halt to hacker theft has been extended indefinitely until countries can prove their systems are protected from further fraud.
• ICE Extends Spot CO2 Trade Suspension to February ...
  Source:� Reuters ICE Futures Europe has extended the suspension of its spot emissions contracts for another week to February 7, it said in a note on Thursday.

GreenBiz

• How the Chevy Volt Became the Heartbeat of GM
  The second part of an in-depth look at how GM took its electric vehicle from concept to prize-winning machine, and the seven steps the program's leader used to shepherd it across the finish line.
• Best Practices for New Wave of Green Certification ...
  More and more, non-manufacturing tech companies are seeking certification of their operations and products under the international standard for environmental management systems. Executives at Blue Coat Systems talk about how the firm's headquarters attained certification in half the time it usually ...
• USPS Green Team Projects Rake in $27M
  �Green teams in the United States Postal Service saved $14 million by using less and recycling more, and also made an additional $13 million from selling recyclables.
• InterContinental Lands a Green Building 'First' in ...
  A bid by the InterContinental Hotels Group to make its existing properties more environmentally responsible has earned the company a green building first in the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design program.
• Climate Earth to Shed New Light on Water's Supply ...
  The San Francisco-based company said Tuesday it has added a new layer of analysis to its environmental intelligence system. Organizations can now measure water use in their operations and supply chains in order to identify mitigation opportunities and make more informed business decisions.

Reuters Global

• Pop star freed but Mexican attitudes still on tria ...
  Mexican pop star Kalimba avoids prosecution after rape accusations but his case says a great deal about racism and justice in Mexico.
• Will Pew Muslim birth rate study finally silence t ...
  A new report by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life debunks the "Eurabia" claim that Muslims will become the majority in Europe within a few decades.
• Pakistan, blasphemy, and a tale of two women
  Two very different women have stood up to Pakistan's religious right at a time when their political leaders are afraid to speak out.
• Pakistan and Mullah Omar: who knows where he is?
  The New York Times has an intriguing story about the sourcing for a report that did the rounds last week saying that Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) rushed Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Muhammad Omar to Karachi last week after he suffered a heart attack.
• Panda diplomacy: the remix
  The latest chapter of panda diplomacy was written at the National Zoo, where the Chinese government agreed to lengthen the "loan" of popular panda pair Mei Xiang and Tian Tian for another five years. Does Washington love them because they look like babies?

Booman Tribune

• Casual Observations
  Obama issued a responsible statement on Egypt. Except, he kind of lit a match by pledging support for the effort to democratize, and for people's right to assemble and protest. If we're going to get on the right side of history tomorrow, that's great. But I had to laugh when he said America will ...
• It Ain't Rape if it Ain't Forcible
  You know that phrase, "except in cases of rape, incest, and the life of the mother"? Well, if the House Republicans get their way, you are going to have to change that to "except in cases of forcible rape, incest with a minor, and the life of the mother." They are introducing a bill that makes the ...
• Selling the Future
  Apparently, as part of Harry Reid's agreement not to push for filibuster reform, he extracted a promise that Mitch McConnell will not attempt to use the 51-vote "Constitutional Option" to change the rules when he is (presumably) the Majority Leader after the 2012 elections. When it comes to predict ...
• Egypt is Teetering
  What Sunday is to Christians, and Saturday is to Jews, Friday is to Muslims. It's not a sabbath exactly, since there is no requirement that adherents 'rest,' but Friday does have a midday obligatory communal prayer and is part of the weekend in the Islamic world. If you want to get a really big pr ...
• Cabin Fever
  I am longing for some warmer weather to go out for a walk in...this 14 inches of snow just isn't conducive to taking Finny out for a stroll (although he did go out for a bit while mom and dad shoveled the car out). And can I just say that this whole telecommuting thing has absolutely ruined the ...

European Tribune

• European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch - 2 ...
  �A Daily Review Of International Online Media�Europeans on this date in history:1885 - Karl Benz...
• Friday Open Thread
  In all its threadful glory!...
• ExxonMobil says wind is cheapest form of electrici ...
  Sometimes, a graph says it all. This one is from ExxonMobil's yearly review of energy...
• European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch - 28 ...
  �A Daily Review Of International Online Media�Europe on this date in history:1521 - The Diet...
• Thursday Open Thread
  Pay tribute to the openness of the threadiness...

Futurismic

• Personal Information: episode 24
  Personal Information is a new serial sci-fi webcomic from Sarah “Does Not Equal” Ennals. Follow Futurismic on Twitter for more nuggets of near-future fun and weirdness! Share and Enjoy:Follow Futurismic on Twitter for more nuggets of near-future fun and weirdness!
• Arguments against life extension
  Via Michael Anissimov, here’s a spectacularly empty diatribe against “deathhackers” by TechCrunch‘s Paul Carr. Carr objects to the idea of radical life extension as advocated by transhumanists, which is fair enough, but as written here most of his objections seem to boil down to personal distate tow ...
• Daddy, where does innovation come from?
  Plenty of folk have been linking to this excerpt from Matt Ridley’s new book The Rational Optimist, and with good reason – it’s a provocative piece that plays to advocates (and opponents) of free trade, open exchange, copyright reform and much more. The basic thesis? The one persistent factor that h ...
• Replacement arms: mechanical or biological?
  Prosthetic limbs are still in their infancy, but there’s a lot of progress being made: Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory is working with Darpa (who else?), and has a research grant for trying out their mind-controlled modular prosthetic arm on five test subjects over the next couple of years ...
• How to be a futurist
  The irrepressible Scott “Basic Instructions” Meyer has the lowdown if you’re thinking of a career in futurism: Click through for the whole thing. But take it from me, being a futurist is a lot of work for no money. Or maybe that’s just the way I do it… and I’ve never been featured in a [...]Follow F ...

Therapy News

• Training VFW Bartenders to Recognize Mental Health ...
  A GoodTherapy.org News Headline People who regularly visit the same bar may jokingly refer to their bartenders as their therapists. Social workers at Ohio State University think there may be some truth to this bond. They hope to start a training program for VFW bartenders that could help veterans ge ...
• Recent Study Reveals a Better Way to Breathe Throu ...
  By Becki A. Hein, MS, LPC, Anxiety Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Becki and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile Treatment for anxiety attacks often includes directions to engage in deep, slow breathing in order to relax. In fact, deep breathing can actually make panic symptoms worse. ...
• Role Models Affect How We See Ourselves
  A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Imagine bright and intelligent young adolescents or high school students. Imagine the countless different professional and personal paths they can choose to follow. But what if they envision their futures not based on their own capabilities and dreams, but rather on w ...
• Seeking An Antidote to Stress, Pain and Illness?
  A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Dr. Anthony Ong of Cornell University says that positive emotions may be exactly such an antidote. Dr. Ong has reviewed a broad range of studies on the relationship positive emotions and physical health during the aging process. His conclusion? Positivity benefits far ...
• It’s About Relationships, Not Food!
  By Ondina Nandine Hatvany, MFT, Eating & Food Issues Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Ondina and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile Beginning in infancy, relationships, food and feeding become intertwined. Think about it: Baby cries and baby gets fed. Someone has to do that feeding, an ...

Mountaintop Removal

• Sundance 2011: Bobby Fischer Against the World and ...
  Sundance 2011: Bobby Fischer Against the World and Page One Vanity Fair Any diehard wine-sipping liberatti could find himself in doc heaven, theater-hopping from topic to topic: mountaintop-removal coal mining in The Last ...
• REPORT: Environmental Impact of Mountaintop Remova ...
  West Virginia Public Broadcasting REPORT: Environmental Impact of Mountaintop Removal Could Be Much Less WSAZ-TV (AP) -- An engineering report on what would have been West Virginia's largest mountaintop removal mine says Arch Coal could have reduced its environmental ... Corporate HyperboleHuffingt ...
• Submit this story - Huffington Post
  Huffington Post Submit this story Huffington Post Mountain top removal and strip mining, "has destroyed 500 Appalachian mountains, decimated 1 million acres of forest, and buried 2000 miles of streams. ... and more��
• Award-winning speaker lectures about mountaintop r ...
  Award-winning speaker lectures about mountaintop removal Marcolian Environmental activist Larry Gibson will be speaking about mountaintop removal and the effects coal companies have on the environment, particularly in his ...
• Sundance review: "The Last Mountain" - Salt Lake T ...
  Sundance review: "The Last Mountain" Salt Lake Tribune (blog) Courtesy Image Filmmaker Bill Haney has this to say about mountaintop removal: Blowing up a mountain to get at the coal underneath is dirty, ... and more��

Memeorandum

• Egypt protests show George W. Bush was right about ...
  Elliott Abrams / Washington Post: Egypt protests show George W. Bush was right about freedom in the Arab world  —  For decades, the Arab states have seemed exceptions to the laws of politics and human nature.  While liberty expanded in many parts of the globe, these nations were left behind, their ...
• Five Things to Understand About the Egyptian Riots ...
  Heather Hurlburt / The New Republic: Five Things to Understand About the Egyptian Riots  —  It takes some hubris to write about events unfolding as fast as the protests in Egypt, especially when it's clear that nobody saw this coming.  Mubarak is preparing to address the nation, and it's unclear wh ...
• Mubarak Vows Cabinet Shift but Defends Deploying A ...
  David D. Kirkpatrick / New York Times: Mubarak Vows Cabinet Shift but Defends Deploying Army as Revolt Sweeps Egypt  —  CAIRO — With police stations and the governing party's headquarters in flames, and much of this crucial Middle Eastern nation in open revolt, President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt dep ...
• Egypt protests: America's secret backing for rebel ...
  Telegraph: Egypt protests: America's secret backing for rebel leaders behind uprising  —  The American government secretly backed leading figures behind the Egyptian uprising who have been planning “regime change” for the past three years, The Daily Telegraph has learned.  —  Protesters and army o ...
• Axelrod: President Obama Has "On Several Occasions ...
  Political Punch: Axelrod: President Obama Has “On Several Occasions Directly Confronted” Mubarak on Human Rights for the Past 2 Years “To Get Ahead of This”  —  In a network exclusive interview to air on Nightline tonight, we sat down this afternoon with White House senior adviser David Axelrod …

Energy & Environment News

• The Texas Tribune: Lack of Transmission Lines Is R ...
  The lack of transmission lines has helped to thwart the ambitions of wind-power advocates in Texas, but that may be changing.
• Once Popular, Car Pools Go the Way of Hitchhiking
  The percentage of workers who car-pool has dropped by almost half since 1980, according to data from the Census Bureau, confounding efforts by urban planners.
• Obama, in Wisconsin, Picks Up Address’s Ref ...
  Illustrating a message from the State of the Union address at a plant that makes solar power and other energy-efficient technology.
• National Briefing | WASHINGTON: Justices Explain L ...
  Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas have clarified their relationship with Koch Industries, which has been criticized by liberal groups for its spending on election campaigns.
• I.H.T. Special Report: Business of Green: Edible F ...
  Concerned about sustainability, two European designers are creating transient garments from what are essentially edible materials.

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China Dialogue

• Lessons from the Tiger
  Rather than their cleaning up their own act in the Year of the Tiger, China’s environmental authorities have tried to shift the burden onto the public, writes Tang Hao. If one word could sum up China’s environmental events of the Year of the Tiger, it would be “leak”. At the beginning of 2010, a die ...
• Talking tactics
  China’s performance in Cancún points to a new, more conciliatory climate diplomacy from a country that knows the sharp end of the blame game, write Angel Hsu and Zhao Yupu.Last month’s UN-led climate talks in Cancún, Mexico, were largely touted as a success, as countries reached near consensus on cr ...
• The wrong direction west
  Beijing has renewed its efforts to drive development in western China but, amid the fanfare, environmental risks are being ignored, write Dong Zhenguo and Zhang Guilin.Last year, Beijing boosted its decade-long campaign to develop the economically backward regions of western China by launching a fre ...
• Apple's darker side
  A new study from three Chinese campaign groups reveals the hidden face of America’s trendiest technology giant. He Haining and Yuan Duanduan report on Apple’s supply-chain secrets.On January 20, a report entitled “The other side of Apple” was published in Beijing. Compiled by three civil-society org ...
• Power to the people?
  As winter power shortages shroud Nepal in familiar darkness, Deepak Adhikari unravels the country’s hydro debate.With winter in full swing, the spectre of planned power cuts, euphemistically called “load shedding”, is haunting Nepal's electricity consumers. The country’s citizens dread this time of ...

AlterNet Top Stories

• Ayn Rand Railed Against Government Benefits, But G ...
  At least she put up a fight before succumbing to the imperatives of the real world.
• Why Diets Make You Fatter -- And What to Do About ...
  The $60-billion-per-year diet industry keeps offering new programs and plans, but it doesn't work 95% of the time because the problem is more than calories.
• Vision: Women's Media Center and Feminist Teens Ra ...
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• Corporations Ain't People, So Why Do They Have the ...
  Two anti-corporate activists discuss the abuses of corporate personhood and how we can shake their grip of power off of our democratic process.
• Mubarak to Dissolve Govt in Wake of Mass Protests: ...
  Mubarak responded to unrest by promising to replace his cabinet, but gave no indication of leaving himself. After Mubarak's remarks, Obama issued a warning.

Threat Level

• Internet ‘Kill Switch’ Legislation Back in Play
  Legislation granting the president internet-killing powers is to be re-introduced soon to a Senate committee, the proposal’s chief sponsor told Wired.com on Friday. The resurgence of the so-called “kill switch” legislation came the same day Egyptians faced an internet blackout designed to counter ma ...
• Egypt Shut Down Its Net With a Series of Phone Cal ...
  Egypt’s largest ISPs shut off their networks Thursday, making it impossible for traffic to get to websites hosted in Egypt or for Egyptians to use e-mail, Twitter or Facebook. The regime of President Hosni Mubarak also ordered the shut down of mobile phone networks, including one run by the U.K.-bas ...
• Amazon.com Security Flaw Accepts Passwords That Ar ...
  An Amazon.com security flaw allows some customers to log in with variations of their actual password that are close to, but not exactly, their real password. The flaw lets Amazon accept as valid some passwords that have extra characters added on after the 8th character, and also makes the password ...
• Assange: ‘We Have to Survive This Leak’
  Three weeks before WikiLeaks and several media outlets began publishing a massive trove of U.S. diplomatic cables, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange expressed fear that the content of the cables was too explosive for his organization to withstand. “We have to survive this leak,” he told newspaper ed ...
• Internet Down in Egypt
  Mobile-phone texting, Blackberry messaging and internet service are suffering a major outage in Egypt as the Middle Eastern nation girds for what is likely to become the nation’s biggest protest following the bread riots of 1977. The Associated Press reported from Cairo that internet access went da ...

Reuters - Most Popular Articles

• New clashes erupt as Egyptians spurn Mubarak speec ...
  CAIRO (Reuters) - Thousands of anti-government protesters clashed with police in the northern Egyptian city of Alexandria on Saturday after President Hosni Mubarak spurned demands that he end his 30-year authoritarian rule.
• WikiLeaks founder says enjoys making banks squirm
  NEW YORK (Reuters) - WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says he enjoys making banks squirm thinking they might be the next targets of his website which has published U.S. diplomatic and military secrets.
• Demi Lovato out of rehab, return to TV show uncert ...
  LOS ANGELES, Jan 28 (Reuters) - Disney Channel teen star Demi Lovato has finished a three-month stay in rehab but has not yet decided when or whether to return work on her "Sonny With a Chance" TV show.
• YouTube unveils "Life in a Day" film at Sundance
  PARK CITY, Utah (Reuters) - If you can't beat 'em, YouTube, join 'em.
• Wall St Week Ahead: Focus will be on Egypt, earnin ...
  NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stocks may struggle to return to firmer footing next week if anti-government riots in Egypt destabilize the Middle East, keeping investors on edge.

IntelNews

• Analysis: What is the CIA doing in Egypt?
  Every time there is a popular uprising anywhere in the Muslim world, the minds of American intelligence planners go immediately to 1979, when the Iranian Revolution tore down almost overnight one of Washington closest allies in the Middle East. By ignoring the immense unpopularity of the Shahâs brut ...
• News you may have missed #472
  French spies become embroiled in Renault's espionage saga. Palestinian Authority documents leaked by ex-MI6 agent. NY Times editor calls Assange 'spy-like'. Continue reading →
• Revelations continue in ex-CIA agent’s trial in Te ...
  A United States government informant testifying at the immigration trial of a former CIA agent has described how he was smuggled into the US from Mexico onboard a luxury boat. It was believed that the former agent, Cuban-born Luis Posada Carriles, had arrived in the US from Honduras in 2005 using a ...
• News you may have missed #471 (ex-spy edition)
  Interview with ex-CIA analyst David Kanin. New book by ex-CIA agent Everett. Ex-MI5 officer questions UK spying priorities. Continue reading →
• South African spy chief had secret US talks, embas ...
  South Africaâs spy chief regularly gave the American embassy in Pretoria detailed information on internal African National Congress (ANC) politics, according to a diplomatic cable leaked by WikiLeaks. The cable, entitled âZuma Advisor Threatens to Expose Political Skeletonsâ, was authored on Septemb ...

War is a Crime.org

• Audio: David Swanson on Egypt with Coy Barefoot
  Charlottesville–Right Now: David Swanson joins Coy Barefoot source 1.28.11 Best-selling non-fiction author David Swanson joins Coy to discuss the revolution taking place in Egypt. Cairo is literally burning, and today’s conversation discusses the political state which lead to this uprising and exa ...
• One citizen wounded and dozens asphyxiated in Bil’ ...
  From Friends of Freedom and Justice - Bil'in Ramallah-Bil’in: A resident of Bil’in was wounded and dozens of residents, peace activists, and individuals wishing to show solidarity suffered severe asphyxiation today. This was due to extensive tear gas use in clashes resulting from the Israeli occupa ...
• Hands Off Egypt!
  UNITED NATIONAL ANTIWAR COMMITTEE CALLS ON ALL SUPPORTERS TO TURN OUT FOR RALLIES IN SOLIDARITY WITH THE PEOPLE OF EGYPT AND OTHER ARAB COUNTRIES TODAY, THIS WEEKEND, AND IN COMING DAYS No More US Support to the Mubarak Dictatorship! Hands off Egypt, Tunisia, Yemen! The Egyptian people, inspired b ...
• A call to action by the National Campaign for Nonv ...
  Click for Flyer Pentagon Action for Peace and the Environment APRIL 8, 2011 CONTACT: joyfirst5 at gmail.com read more
• Bartenders May Have Role in Assisting Troubled War ...
  ScienceDaily (Jan. 25, 2011) — For troubled war veterans, a friendly bartender can be the source of more than just drinks and a sympathetic ear. A pilot study suggests that some bartenders may be in a good position to identify veterans in need of mental health services and help connect them to the a ...

Grist - News

• U.N. Chief Ban Ki-moon shifts focus from climate f ...
  by Agence France-Presse. LONDON -- U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is shifting his focus away from involvement in international climate change talks and toward new areas in the fight against global warming. Ban is to redirect his efforts from trying to push forward the international climate ...
• New Senate bill aims to avoid next oil spill
  by Agence France-Presse. WASHINGTON -- Senators plan to introduce in the coming weeks new legislation aiming to prevent another disastrous oil spill like last year's massive gusher in the Gulf of Mexico, Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D-N.M.) said Wednesday. A similar bill that would revise offshore dri ...
• Big cities are not always the biggest polluters
  by Agence France-Presse. WASHINGTON -- Big cities like New York, London, and Shanghai send less pollution into the atmosphere per capita than places like Denver and Rotterdam, said a study released Tuesday. Researchers examined data from 100 cities in 33 nations for clues about which were the ...
• 2010 warmest ever year, says U.N. weather agency
  by Agence France-Presse. GENEVA -- The U.N.'s World Meteorological Organization said Thursday that 2010 was the warmest year on record, confirming a "significant" long-term trend of global warming and producing exceptional weather variations. The trend also helped to melt Arctic sea ice cover t ...
• Apple under fire for pollution and poisoned Chines ...
  by Agence France-Presse. SHANGHAI -- Chinese environmental groups on Thursday singled out Apple for failing to tackle concerns over pollution and the health of workers at plants making parts for trendy gadgets such as its iPhone. In a new report, the groups said the U.S. giant ranked last in a ...

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Farming Pathogens

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Suzie-Q

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• Gun Rights Battle Heads To Bars, Churches, Doctors ...
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